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|    Tom Lavedas to billious    |
|    Re: Changing date output format to yyyy.    |
|    07 Nov 12 07:43:10    |
      From: tglbatch@verizon.net              On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 9:44:46 AM UTC-5, billious wrote:       > On 6/11/2012 19:06, Fairfax wrote:              > You seem to be very carefully avoiding telling us the critical matter -       > what is the format of %DATE% on the machine in question? Note that it IS       > possible that the format of %DATE% and %TIME% used could contain separators       > such as "/", "-", "." "," ":" and possibly symbols such as "am" AND the       > various elements may be leading-zero-suppressed. If the dayname isn't       > displayed and you really want it, then it CAN be derived with a GREAT       > DEAL of code if VBS, etc. is not available.              I thought that was foxi's point (first response) in resorting to WMIC to gain       access to a date-time string independent or the locale formatting.       _____________________________       Tom Lavedas              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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