DATETIME outputs a string with the current date and/or time and/or other
         current date/time info.

Please run the dt-test.cmd to see an example of some of the output
variations possible with DATETIME.

To operate DATETIME simply run it with a string (enclosed in double quotes)
containing the various time/date substitution codes that DATETIME supports.
For example, to output a based time and date the command might look so:

    DATETIME "It is now @d, at @t in the @i3"

The output for that might look like this:

    It is now Wednesday, February 21, 1996, at 3:06 pm in the afternoon.

Practical uses for DATETIME might be if you want to display the date and
time in a particular format while running a batch file. Or perhaps more
useful, if you want to log a particular date/time something happens to a
file. To do this just redirect the output of DATETIME to a file.

DATETIME is extremely flexible in what I can output. The complete list of
substitution codes can be obtained by running DATETIME /? which will give
you this:

DATEFILE outputs a string with the current date and/or time
formatted to your command line specifications. Please enter the
command line with double quotation marks and any these of these:

 @d - the full date (Thursday, February 15, 1996)
 @t - 12 time of day (9:34 pm)

 unit            no lead   ld zero   ld spce   Nth 
 ----            -------   -------   -------   ----
 month number  -   @m1       @m2       @m3     @m4 
 day of month  -   @d1       @d2       @d3     @d4 
 12 hour       -   @h1       @h2       @h3     @h4 
 24 hour       -   @H1       @H2       @H3     @H4 
 minute        -   @n1       @n2       @n3     @n4 
 second        -   @s1       @s2       @s3     @s4 
 hundredths    -   @u1       @u2       @u3     @u4 
 day of year   -   @a1       @a2       @a3     @a4 

 @y - year    @y1 - 2 digit year 
 @i - am/pm   @i1 - AM/PM   @i2 - Am/Pm   @i3 - morning/afternoon/evening
 @M - month name    @M1 - 3 letters  @M2 - 2 letters
 @W - weekday name  @W1 - 3 letters  @W2 - 2 letters  @W3 - num  @W4 - Nth
 @p1 - % day gone    @p2 - % year gone  @t1 - tenth/Second

Use standard output redirection to output/append to a file.
/n means don't output cr/lf at end.

example: DATETIME "It is now @t on @d." /n


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