Windows time stamping in batch files

Creating a time-stamp  in windows can be usful for the automated backups we all SHOULD be doing 🙂

 

pkzip c:\<source>\*.* c:\<target>\TempZip.zip
ren C:\<target>\TempZip.Zip c:\<target>\TempZip_%date:~-4,4%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-10,2%.zip

 

Or simply to create a directory for copying open files (Lawrence 🙂 )

set backdir=%date:~-4,4%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-10,2%

mkdir %backdir%

cd %backdir%

etc..