Opening a command prompt window and running there set /? outputs the help for command SET. There is explained on last help page that %DATE% expands to the current locale date and %TIME% to the current locale time on parsing the line containing those dynamic variable references. The format of the date and the time depends on Windows region and language settings. It is necessary for that reason ...
Is there a cross-platform way to get the current date and time in C++?
How can I get current time and date in C++? - Stack Overflow
DATE will silently recalculate numeric dates which fall outside of valid month or day ranges. For example, DATE(1969,13,1), which specifies the illegal month 13, will create a date of 1/1/1970.
This Stack Overflow thread provides solutions for formatting JavaScript dates as yyyy-mm-dd.
I tried using $(date) in my bash shell script, however, I want the date in YYYY-MM-DD format. How do I get this?
How do I format a Javascript Date object as a string? (Preferable format: 10-Aug-2010)
Is there a built-in method for converting a date to a datetime in Python, for example getting the datetime for the midnight of the given date? The opposite conversion is easy: datetime has a .date()