Windows Batch File

I needed  the get the date for batch file on Windows in this format yyyy-mm-dd e.g. 2009-03-20 so I did a little research on the internet.

The result is I found this snippet at tech-recipes.com

FOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS= " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET CDATE=%%B

FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 eol=/ DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET mm=%%B

FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ eol=/" %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET dd=%%B

FOR /F "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET yyyy=%%B

SET mydate=%yyyy%-%mm%-%dd%

There are some nuisances so for more discussion on the top visit  tech-recipes.