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Posted: **04 Mar 2009 09:38**

I suppose I'm missing something really obvious, but I can't find much on date formats. I need to determine the day of the week from %DATE% and set a variable to format such as MONDAY, TUESDAY, etc. Note that I also need the day in caps.

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Posted: **19 Mar 2009 09:03**

http://www.ss64.org/viewtopic.php?id=617

Posted: **19 Mar 2009 10:01**

Thanks for the info. Much more elaborate than the simple approach I ended up taking:

set day=%DATE:~0,3%

IF %day% == Mon set dayofweek=Monday
IF %day% == Tue set dayofweek=Tuesday
IF %day% == Wed set dayofweek=Wednesday
IF %day% == Thu set dayofweek=Thursday
IF %day% == Fri set dayofweek=Friday
IF %day% == Sat set dayofweek=Saturday

Posted: **19 Mar 2009 10:16**

swgivens wrote:Thanks for the info. Much more elaborate than the simple approach I ended up taking:

set day=%DATE:~0,3%

IF %day% == Mon set dayofweek=Monday
IF %day% == Tue set dayofweek=Tuesday
IF %day% == Wed set dayofweek=Wednesday
IF %day% == Thu set dayofweek=Thursday
IF %day% == Fri set dayofweek=Friday
IF %day% == Sat set dayofweek=Saturday

Just remember -- not all OS version actaully include the DAY in the %date% variable

Posted: **19 Mar 2009 15:37**

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Posted: **20 Mar 2009 04:07**

avery_larry wrote:
swgivens wrote:Thanks for the info. Much more elaborate than the simple approach I ended up taking:

set day=%DATE:~0,3%

IF %day% == Mon set dayofweek=Monday
IF %day% == Tue set dayofweek=Tuesday
IF %day% == Wed set dayofweek=Wednesday
IF %day% == Thu set dayofweek=Thursday
IF %day% == Fri set dayofweek=Friday
IF %day% == Sat set dayofweek=Saturday

Just remember -- not all OS version actaully include the DAY in the %date% variable

it also useful for me
thanks

Posted: **22 Mar 2009 23:13**

Alternatively use Julian days modulo seven to look up a string like this:

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@Echo Off

call:jdate JD
set /a d=1+(JD%%7)
for /f "tokens=%d%" %%A in ("MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY") do echo.%%A

GOTO:EOF


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:jdate JD DateStr -- converts a date string to Julian day number with respect to regional date format
>> copy from http://www.dostips.com/DtCodeCmdLib.php#jdate

http://www.dostips.com/DtCodeCmdLib.php#jdate

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