DATE Enviroment variable

[Smudge1977]

We use a lot of DOS scripts on our servers and rely on the DATE enviroment variable to help us with this.

What registery key controls the output format of the command
echo %DATE%
Some servers return Mon 07/08/2006 and other return either US or UK format dates with no day.

How can we make sure this is always consistant as there does not seem to be a field in regional settings that reflects the current output of %DATE%

 

[ncotton]

HKEY_Current_User\Control Panel\International::sShortDate

Hope this Helps.

Neil J Cotton
njc Information Systems
Systems Consultant