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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.   
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   Tom Lavedas   
      
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