03 Sep 15 08:26, you wrote to All:

 BG> At one time, I was able to write a batch file that would rename any file
to
 BG> the present date.

 BG> For example, it was possible to rename info.txt to 090315.txt. I have long
 BG> since forgotten how to do this.

 BG> Could someone refresh my memory? I'm using Windows XP SP3 on the
particular
 BG> machine that I need to do this on.

do you have powershell on that box? i don't know if it is needed for this or
not, though...

anyway, here's a neat winwhatever script that can do the date and time
thing... currently it outputs YYYYMMDDhhmmss format... this is all native
winwhatever and uses no external 3rd party schtuffings...

just run it to see the output... the main key is the bottom ":mygettime"
section which must be as written the first line after the label is pretty long
and the second line starts with the "rem" statement... the output, as the file
currently is, should be something like

[quote]
-------------------
20150903173045
20150903173045 set blerg=x:\foo\bar
20150903173046 terminating
[/quote]

so in your script that needs to rename files, you would include the entire
":mygettime" section and then in your script whereever you need the current
datetime stamp, you would

call :mygettime
ren somefile.txt %ldt%.txt

any time you need or want the datetime stamp, you "call :mygettime: first and
then use "%ldt%" for the stamp where ever you want it...

==== Begin "LDT.BAT"  ====
@echo off
Echo -------------------
call :mygettime
Echo %ldt%
set blerg=x:\foo\bar
call :mygettime
echo %ldt% set blerg=%blerg%


:end
call :mygettime
echo %ldt% %0 terminating
echo.
if not '%blerg%' == '' set blerg=
goto :EOF

:mygettime
for /F "usebackq tokens=1,2 delims==" %%i in (`wmic os get LocalDateTime
/VALUE 2^>NUL`) do if '.%%i.'=='.LocalDateTime.' set ldt=%%j
rem set ldt=%ldt:~0,4%-%ldt:~4,2%-%ldt:~6,2% %ldt:~8,2%:%ldt:~10,2%:%ldt:~12,2%
set ldt=%ldt:~0,4%%ldt:~4,2%%ldt:~6,2%%ldt:~8,2%%ldt:~10,2%%ldt:~12,2%
exit /b
==== End "LDT.BAT" ====

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