Split %date% in a batch file regardless of Regional Settings

Question

Is there a way to split the %date% in a batch file (say, in 3 environment variables), but regardless of Regional Settings? Today's date would be 3/13/2013 for US, but with my Regional Settings it is 13.3.2013 - the delimiter is changed and the order as well.

Answer 1

Four years have passed, but this question doesn't get old, and I think now there's a slightly better answer than using wmic (on win7 onwards).

for /F "tokens=1,2,3 delims=_" %%i in ('PowerShell -Command "& {Get-Date -format "MM_dd_yyyy"}"') do (
    set MONTH=%%i
    set DAY=%%j
    set YEAR=%%k
)
echo %MONTH% %DAY% %YEAR%

With powershell Get-Date you can fine-tune the format you want (short,long, numbers,names,etc..). In this example "MM_dd_yyyy" will get you a numeric date with leading zeros in case of single digit months or days

Answer 2

This function should work on all regions.

Remarks:

Returns month in text format for MMM regions

@echo off
  call :GetDateIntl year month day 
  echo/Using GetDateIntl you get: %year%-%month%-%day%
goto:eof

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:GetDateIntl yy mm dd [/A]
:: Returns the current date on any machine with regional-independent settings
:: Arguments:
::   yy = variable name for the year output
::   mm = variable name for the month output
::   dd = variable name for the day output
::   /A = OPTIONAL, removes leading 0 on days/months smaller than 10 (example: 01 becomes 1)
:: Remarks:
::  Will return month in text format in regions with MMM month
::
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS
if "%date%A" LSS "A" (set toks=1-3) else (set toks=2-4)
for /f "tokens=2-4 delims=(-)" %%a in ('echo:^|date') do (
  for /f "tokens=%toks% delims=.-/ " %%i in ('date/t') do (
    set '%%a'=%%i
    set '%%b'=%%j
    set '%%c'=%%k
  )
)
if /I "%'yy'%"=="" set "'yy'=%'aa'%"
if /I "%'yy'%"=="" ( set "'yy'=%'jj'%" & set "'dd'=%'tt'%" )
if %'yy'% LSS 100 set 'yy'=20%'yy'%
endlocal&set %1=%'yy'%&set %4 %2=%'mm'%&set %4 %3=%'dd'%&goto :EOF
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