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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