Changing %DATE% format

[AntiEarnie]

Does anyone know where to change the %DATE% environment variable? I know short date appears to change the date part but windows keeps putting in the abbreviated day of week.

For example:
echo %DATE%
from the command prompt gives me:
Wed 01/05/2005

I would like to find a way stop windows from returning the "Wed".

 

[wolluf]

In regional options change the short date format to mm/dd/yyyy.

 

[AntiEarnie]

While that does change the order the date is listed in it still also posts the the day in front, i.e. Mon, Tue, Wed, etc...

 

[wolluf]

works on my machine (mind you, I'm UK based, so UK settings) - are you sure you don't have ddd mm/dd/yyyy. I played a little with this. Got the same as you if I put ddd in front of the rest of the date - without ddd, text day doesn't appear when echoing %date%. If its not working for you, must be some other factor involved (I'm no expert on this - though have played a bit as M$ o/s have this habit of insisting on US settings - you have to work very hard to remove US settings from machine, if you don't want them. Btw - why is US the only place that doesn't have its date in logical order? Month back to day then forward 2 orders of magnitude to year? Everyone else has either day month year or year month day. Sorry - just an aside, always bugs me!)

 

[bcastner]

Rob VanderWoude notes:

However, keep in mind that Microsoft has made some changes in the output of the DATE /T and TIME /T commands, depending on the Regional Settings used.
In the Canadian English version of XP for example, DATE /T does not return the Day Of Week, only MM/DD/YY.

Some batch techniques that may help:

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html

 

[bcastner]

Rob VanderWoude notes:

However, keep in mind that Microsoft has made some changes in the output of the DATE /T and TIME /T commands, depending on the Regional Settings used.
In the Canadian English version of XP for example, DATE /T does not return the Day Of Week, only MM/DD/YY.

Some batch techniques that may help:

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/datetiment.html