Windows date and regional setting

Different regional settings on Windows servers will cause date command to give different output, which can be annoying if you want to use a date string in your batch scripts.

So I was very happy to see a genious solution:

   @echo off&SETLOCAL

   :: This will return date into environment vars
   :: Works on any NT/2K/XP machine independent of regional date settings
   :: 20 March 2002

   FOR /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/-. " %%G IN ('date /t') DO (call :s_fixdate %%G %%H %%I %%J)
   goto :s_print_the_date
  
   :s_fixdate
   if "%1:~0,1%" GTR "9" shift
   FOR /f "skip=1 tokens=2-4 delims=(-)" %%G IN ('echo.^date') DO (
       set %%G=%1&set %%H=%2&set %%I=%3)
   goto :eof

   :s_print_the_date
   echo Month:[%mm%]  Day:[%dd%]  Year:[%yy%]
   ENDLOCAL&SET mm=%mm%&SET dd=%dd%&SET yy=%yy%