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Re: OT: M$-Dos Question
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Evan Vaala <[log in to unmask]>
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Evan Vaala <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 21 May 2002 14:53:23 -0400
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On Tue, 21 May 2002 14:32:57 -0400, [log in to unmask] wrote:

>Well, that's interesting. I'm familiar with some rather old, kludgy ways of
>performing very crude date / time logic. This NTism is new to me. So are
the
>offsets into the strings. Issuing SET to display env vars does not list
>this. And, I cannot find it in W2K help. And, neither google nor
>microsoft.com seem to be able to do much with % in strings. If anyone can
>point me to some documentation on these env vars and related NT / W2K
>features, I would welcome it.
>

These are new to me also, but I have Windows 2000 and for kicks I performed
the following from a dos prompt:

d:\>echo %DATE%
Tue 05/21/2002

d:\>echo %TIME%
13:46:08.27

Seems to work.  Don't know why...

I tried it also on NT4 where it does NOT work.

Evan Vaala
Rockwell Automation

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