%YEAR% Variable in Batch File

[Incroyable HULK]

Once again I am requesting help for my batch file... all of this wouldn't happen if I had a computer BEFORE Windows 95 got out.

All I want is the code to get the current year to my RunOnceEx title. I've been searching on the net and I found some variable like DATE/T and TIME/T but I'm stuck.

This is what I want:

REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "IT Departement %YEAR%" /f

so this way, I wouldn't have to care to update the year in all my batch files.

[SiMoNsAyS]

well this is what i use on my programs.cmd, hope it helps...

SET %TIME%=TIME /T
ECHO.
ECHO.

ECHO [ Estableciendo Variable "CDROM" ]
FOR %%d IN (c: d: e: f: g: h: i: j: k: l: m: n: o: p: q: r: s: t: u: v: w: x: y: z:) DO IF EXIST %%d\$OEM$\BioHaZaRD.nfo SET CDROM=%%d
ECHO Unidad %CDROM%, %TIME%

ECHO.
ECHO Instalando AveDesk 1.1 (En), %TIME%
ECHO Por favor espera...
..

[Incroyable HULK]

Sort off... I'd like to trim the result to only display the year

with your command I get:

2005 21:44:48,84

[Alanoll]

i dunno how you're getting that, but if that's what's in variable %TIME%

do

SET YEAR = %TIME:~0,3%

Will take characters 1 - 4 (2005) and save them in %YEAR%

[Incroyable HULK]

Ah crap! 2005 was the text already present in my title!

What I get with:

SET %TIME%=TIME /T

IS

21:44:48,84

[Incroyable HULK]

If I go with:

SET DATE = %DATE:~0,3%

I get:

2004-12-23

[SiMoNsAyS]

@Alanoll didn't know about that...

@Incroyable HULK so your code must look like...

forget about it

Edited December 24, 2004 by SiMoNsAyS

[Incroyable HULK]

If I use your code:

SET %YEAR%=DATE /T:~0,3%

REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Service Informatique %YEAR%"/f

I don't get anything returned!

[Alanoll]

try this

set YEAR=%DATE:~-4%

%DATE% on my system is

Thu 12/23/2004

and after the above SET command I get

echo %YEAR%
2004

:~-4 gets the last 4 digits.

Also remember

SET %YEAR%=

is NOT proper syntax. should be

SET YEAR=

Then to use YEAR you put the %'s on either side.

Edited December 24, 2004 by Alanoll

[Incroyable HULK]

I get this:

2-23

I need the first 4 caracters not the last one...

But this will give different results if the regional setting are set differently...

Is there a way to get it for sure? Independent from the configuration

EDIT: it works on my system with this code:

set YEAR=%DATE:~0,4%

[Alanoll]

so use

SET YEAR=%DATE:~0,3%

[Incroyable HULK]

Yep! I edited my previous post... before I noticed there was a second page in my thread

Anyway, it seems to me like a "dirty hack" because it won't work on all systems... depending on the date format in the regional settings

[Alanoll]

do you plan on servicing any that are set to US region?

Everywhere else I believe uses the same. GO AMERICANS (US ones anyway)

But that's the only DATE i know of on the system, without using VBS or something to get it directly form the system.

[gunsmokingman]

This Is What This Code Produces

echo off
cls 
color F8
mode con: Cols=55 Lines=3
Title What Year Is It
SET YEAR=%date:~10,10%
echo.
set /p = The Year Is %YEAR%

Re-Edit Both Work Here

@echo off
cls 
color F2
mode con: Cols=55 Lines=4
Title What Year Is It Test 2
SET YEAR=%date:~-4,10%
echo.
@echo The Year Is %YEAR%
pause

Edited October 26, 2005 by gunsmokingman

[Tsunami]

This is different for every system. It depends on the language and short date settings. %DATE% returns 24-12-04 on my system So a batch file isn't the best way to get the year from a system. After a little bit of searching I found that this returns the year in a VBS file:

DatePart("yyyy", Date)

But I don't know if it bothers you to set the title from the vbs file, and do the rest from the batch file, or if you want to pass the year from the vbs file to the batch file, and set it from there, or whatever