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Hi, there.
I have never had any trouble changing date/time in Regional Settings
in any computer I've ever used, except at this new job contract. It
won't take. Since registry and other items are locked from user
editing, I'm assuming that that's what they've done here. Since I was
recently talking with an IT guy who said they'd had trouble with the
date entry in their databases and the endless problems that had
created (um, have none of these guys ever hear of masking?????!!!!),
I'm assuming that they locked this down.
And since my USB flash drive can't be used to launch apps from so
can't use my usual backup scripts using Autoit, I have to do a batch
file workaround.
Thanks.
On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 16:31:57 -0000, "Tim Meddick"
wrote:
>Forgive me; but I always try to get a handle on the bigger picture :- It
>could be as simple as you are setting the date/time format in Regional
>Settings, but then, perhaps, you are not refreshing the [cmd.exe] window.
>That is; closing all instances of [cmd.exe] and re-opening another *after*
>Regional Settings has been dismissed.
>
>When you [re]set the short date:
>
>"Control Panel" > "Regional and Language Options" >
>
>"Regional Options" (Tab) > "Customize" (Button) >
>
>"Date" (Tab) > "Short Date" (Area)
>
>...if you choose : yyyy-MM-dd
>...(with "Date Seperator" set to : "-" ) the %DATE% variable (in a Command
>Prompt window) will look like : 2012-11-06
>
>...Setting it to : yyyy-MMM-dd
>...and the %DATE% variable will look like : 2012-Nov-06
>
>*NB you do not have to stick to the options in the drop-down box of the
>Date Format setting - it also accepts keyboard-typed-input.
>
>You will need to change the "Date Seperator" setting (to; "-"), as other
>characters (i.e.; "/") are not helpful when using the %DATE% variable for
>naming files.
>
>However, the "Time" format setting in Regional Options has *no* effect on
>the format of the %TIME% variable, and will always remain: HH:MM:SS.UU or
>16:01:37.66
>
>==
>
>Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
>
>
>P.S. The above settings (short) "Date" and "Time", will *both* always
>effect the output of the Command Prompt's "Time" and "Date" commands :
>
>C:\>time /t
>04:18pm
>
>C:\>date /t
>2012-11-06
>
>...whereas, it is only the %TIME% variable which is unaffected by any
>modified settings.
>
>"Fairfax" wrote in message
>news:3hrh98tmltlt5qdekese8jnvol2tc34t56@4ax.com...
>> Good Morning!
>>
>> I have a batch file that works very well in creating a backup copy:
>>
>> copy "F:\TIMER-WORK\Time Worked Calculator\APP- TWCalc\twc.ses"
>> "F:\TIMER-WORK\Time Worked Calculator\APP- TWCalc\zBKP- twc.ses -
>> %DATE%., %TIME:~0,2%h%TIME:~3,2%m%TIME:~6,2%s.ses"
>>
>> Because my regional settings at home work, I get the correct output of
>> part of the date, in yyyy.mm.dd.(day missing).
>>
>> At work (also with WinXP), I edit the regional settings but they don't
>> stick.
>>
>> How can I change the %DATE% above so that it works to give me
>> yyyy.mm.dd.ddd?
>>
>> From this page here,
>> http://blueonionsoftware.com/blog.aspx?p=40656a9d-021b-4061-b
96-36ad5211f4b2,
>> I tried this:
>>
>> %DATE:~-4%.%DATE:~4,2%.%DATE:~7,2%.%DATE:~0,3%
>>
>> but I got gobbledook in the output file's name for the date.
>> Supposedly the above breaks the date down into yyyy.mm.dd.ddd but I
>> get this type of mangled output:
>>
>> zBKP- twc.ses - 1.06..1..0.201, 6h05m22s.ses
>>
>> instead of this, which %DATE% gives which I have to then manually edit
>> each time:
>>
>> zBKP- twc.ses - 2012.11.06., 6h05m27s.ses
>>
>> TIA!
>>
>> Cheers.
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