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I am using the "day of the week" for back up reasons. On all the systems I
work with, I have no problem except one. In all cases (except the rogue
system), if at the Dos prompt I issue the command date /t I get the result
of the day and the date eg. Fri 04/07/2006, but on the rogue system I get
the result of date only eg. 04/06/2006 with no mention of the day of the
week. I have checked the environmental variables but can find no reason for
this difference. I might add that the rogue system acts as a Oracle
"server". I am wondering if there may be something in the Oracle setup (set
up by the software people) that is not visible to me.

Thus I am not able to use the day of the week as part of my backup procedure
on the rogue system.
 
Alan said:
I am using the "day of the week" for back up reasons. On all the systems I
work with, I have no problem except one. In all cases (except the rogue
system), if at the Dos prompt I issue the command date /t I get the result
of the day and the date eg. Fri 04/07/2006, but on the rogue system I get
the result of date only eg. 04/06/2006 with no mention of the day of the
week. I have checked the environmental variables but can find no reason for
this difference. I might add that the rogue system acts as a Oracle
"server". I am wondering if there may be something in the Oracle setup (set
up by the software people) that is not visible to me.

Thus I am not able to use the day of the week as part of my backup procedure
on the rogue system.
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It's probably set somewhere in the Regional Options.
However, the overall issue is that the %date% variable
(which yields the same output as date /t) is a fragile thing
that should be avoided in robust applications. Much
better to use now.exe (Technical Resource Kit). It
generates a date/time output in a fixed format, much
like Unix-based systems.
 
I too an doing a backup using Day of the Week. Four different PCs running XP
Professional have stopped displaying the Day of the Week in DOS. I prefer
not to use now.exe but would like to find out what has changed so that now
when typing date at the dos prompt, all I see is mm/dd/yyyy instead of dow,
mm/dd/yyyy. I checked the long date format and it is set up correctly, so
how do I get these PCs back to normal and what happened?? Thanks, Paul
 
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