Thank you all for your suggestions. I will definitely look into 4dos. I will not use its specific date and time functions as that will tie me to it. However, it is interesting in itself. Is it used a lot amongst FreeDos users? I guess I was too focused on doing everything from a batch file. I should, of course, have look into doing it using some of the other tools suggested like AWD, SED etc. The suggestion for using struct dosdate_t dt; and struct dostime_t tm; as suggested by Jim Hall, works perfectly and it allows me to format the date and time any way I want. Also it is simple. The amount of data that will go into my log files is minimal. It is just for me to keep track of what happens when I run certain batch jobs that I will write eventually (I'm just getting started with FreeDos).
Thanks a lot and have a merry christmas /Osman Den fre. 23. dec. 2022 kl. 08.41 skrev M. Osman Talayman <talay...@gmail.com>: > > Hello, > > I just can't figure this one out: From a .bat file, I want to write > entries to a log file. Each entry should have a date and time in the > form YYYYMMDD:HHMMSS I have searched the internet for solutions on how > to do this, but none of the solutions work (I think they are for > cmd.exe in modern Windows which is more advanced than command.com). > > My first problem is, that I just cannot figure out how to write just > the date without all the preceeding text (Current date is Thu > 12-23-2022). I tried some a substring routine like this, which I > found on a web page > > set YYYYMMDD=%DATE:~10,4%%DATE:~4,2%%DATE:~7,2% > echo %YYYYMMDD% > > I changed the numbers to reflect my date output > > I ran the .bat file, but all it says i "ECHO is on", so first problem > is: How do I write a date to a file from a .bat file? > > Second problem is, that I want to alway have the date formatted as > YYYYMMDD no matter which locale it is run on. Is there any call that > can be made in FreeDOS to automatically format the date in a specifc > way no matter which locale is used? > > Thanks and marry christmas > /Osman _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
