Windows 7 batch file date Issue

I worked in windows XP and moved to windows 7 now. Used batch files to build. Now it doesn't work.

Windows XP:

echo %DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%-%DATE:~10,4%

02-10-2011

Windows-7:

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2--01-

Please help. Thanks.

It works for me. But when I tried this:

SET DATF=2011-10-02
ECHO %DATF:~4,2%-%DATF:~7,2%-%DATF:~10,4%

it displayed:

-1--0-

So my guess is in your Windows 7 environment %DATE% must be returning the date in a different format from what it used to be in WinXP. You might want to change the script or to change locale settings for date/time.

I bet the output/format of %DATE% has changed - it's affected by locale/regional setting.

Just do an echo %DATE% to see if the format has changed from WinXP to Win7.

It depends on your time setting, the time format may be different. Try simply this line on both:

echo %DATE%

The most used are DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY.

Than, if different, parse your string as needed.

I just figured this out. The problem is that Win7 are counting string from 0 instead of 1 in XP, so the solution is:

XP

echo %DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%-%DATE:~10,4%

WIN7

echo %DATE:~3,2%-%DATE:~6,2%-%DATE:~9,4%

Try it, this works for me.