[geeks] date command for NT?

[Will Mc Donald]

Is installing 3rd party software acceptable in this case? If so, Cygwin
 http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ ) provide a whole suite of unix style
tools and utilities for Windows machines. I suspect JP Software's Take
Command or 4DOS would do it as well but I don't know.

As a non-programmer I would hazard a guess at it being possible
programatically, you can customise the way Windows reports the date so I
dare say it can be done through some API or other.

As for native tools, I suspect not. I just typed "man time" unkthinkingly at
a Win 9x command prompt which didn't really help. :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Leblanc" <gleblanc at cu-portland.edu>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: 23 May 2001 21:19
Subject: [geeks] date command for NT?


> Does anybody know of an NT command equivalent to the "date" command for
> *nix?  I need some way to get the current time in Unix Epoch time format
> for an interoperability project, and the functions that Cold Fusion
> provides for doing this are a bit limited.  Thanks,
>     Greg
>
>