Pdate

Description

pDate is a console utility for Windows to format date output from 4000 BC to 4000 AC. It is a free and opensource software aimed to provide the same functionality as date utility in Linux and Unix-like OSs. It is comfortable to use in bat and cmd scripts.

pDate is issued under Public Domain licence and is free to use, change and redistribute without any limitation.

• Author: Pavel Malahov

Download

• executable pDate
• source code
• history

Examples

1) Short day of the week and date:

pdate.exe "a D" Wed 19.10.2005

2) A day before yesterday:

pdate.exe "a d b" -2 Mon 17 Oct

3) Tomorrow:

pdate.exe "A B d" 1 Thursday October 20

4) Add any text to date by using symbol "\":

pdate.exe "\T\o\d\a\y \i\s D \w\h\i\c\h \i\s a" Today is 19.10.2005 which is Wed

5) Two lines output:

<nowiki>pdate.exe Y.m.d-H:M:S:NnD_T

2005.10.19-17:15:58:125

19.10.2005_17:15:58

Here is a script to build a date-based file name:

rem --- set and get variable %dm% with current date ---
pdate.exe "\s\e\t \d\m\=Y.M.d" >tmp.bat
call tmp.bat
del tmp.bat
set FileName=name_%dm%.log

For September 1st we will get variable FileName equal to name_2007.09.01.log.

Synopsis and keys

pdate.exe FORMAT [DAYS]

FORMAT controls the output and consists of the keys or other characters up to 255. Be aware of space character which is a delimiter for keys. If you want to use it in output use quotation marks ("). Keys are:

• a - day of the week, short name (Mon..Sun)
• A - day of the week, full name (Monday..Sunday)
• b - month, short name(Jan..Dec)
• B - month, full name(January..December)
• c - date and time
• C - age
• d - day (01..31)
• D - date (dd.mm.yy)
• e - day (1..31)
• F - same as "a D"
• H - hour in 24 mode (00..23)
• I - hour in 12 mode (00..12)
• j - day of the year (001..366)
• m - day of the month (01..12)
• M - minute (00..59)
• n - new line
• N - millisecond (0..999)
• p - AM/PM indicator
• P - am/pm indicator
• S - second(00..59)
• T - time(hh:mm:ss)
• u - day of the week (1..7), 1 = Monday
• V - week of the year (01..53), first week counts as a whole one, i.e. no matter what day of the week was January 1st.
• W - week of the year (00..52), how many 7-days periods, i.e. = days passed / 7
• y - last two digits of the year (00..99)
• Y - year
• z - date and time if format 2006.01.31_05:38:45
• Z - date and time if format 31.01.2006 05:38:45
• ?,/? - help

DAYS day shift from today (see examples).

• =0 today, default.
• >0 future, i.e. 1 = tomorrow
• <0 past, i.e. -1 = yesterday

For programmers

• В программе создан свой тип pDate и pTime, для которых определены свои операторы сложения и вычитания.
• Используются одно- и двухмерные массивы, числовые и строковые.
• Есть функции преобразования типов.