Chris Bradshaw • 5/16/2012

Formatting the Windows date in a filename.

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This technical article explains how to format the Windows command line's %DATE% environment variable to produce an ISO 8601 compliant date string (YYYY-MM-DD) suitable for use in filenames and backup folder paths. It provides a specific substring extraction command and an example using robocopy for automated, dated backups.

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#Date Formatting #Iso 8601 #Windows Scripting
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