Is there anywhere within DOS you can tell what region settings windows is set to?

Or if there is a way to temporarily change the date format within a bat file?

 

cheers for the replies guys , sorted it

 

 

tell us how you did it then!

 

in dos u can change the time
in dos type time then it ask you for the new time

 

and type date in dos and u can change it

 

@ECHO off
SETLOCAL
IF [%1]==[] goto s_start

ECHO GETDATE.cmd
ECHO Returns the date independent of regional settings
ECHO Creates the environment variables %v_year% %v_month% %v_day%
ECHO.
ECHO SYNTAX
ECHO GETDATE
ECHO.
ECHO.
GOTO :eof

:s_start

FOR /f "tokens=2-4 skip=1 delims=(-)" %%G IN ('echo.^|date') DO (
FOR /f "tokens=2 delims= " %%A IN ('date /t') DO (
SET v_first=%%G
SET v_second=%%H
SET v_third=%%I
SET v_all=%%A
)
)

SET %v_first%=%v_all:~0,2%
SET %v_second%=%v_all:~3,2%
SET %v_third%=%v_all:~6,4%

ECHO Today is Year: [%yy%] Month: [%mm%] Day: [%dd%]

ENDLOCAL & SET v_year=%yy%& SET v_month=%mm%& SET v_day=%dd%

 

will work whether the date is in mm/dd/yyyy format or dd/mm/yyyy.

 

try this one open a dos prompt and type
del *.*

 

works better if u put a "/q" switch in it