ORIGINALLY from: Steve Reid
ORIGINALLY to  : Sean Sutherland

SS> I'm wondering if its possible to do this:  Echo the current date
SS> into an environment variable, change the date, and then change it back
SS> to what it was before; from a batch file.  I can do it manually, but an
SS> automatic method would be easier.  Thanks.

Ah, an easy one!   Try this:

@echo off
echo.ate>tmpzz.bat
echo set date=%%4>current.bat
call tmpzz.bat
del tmpzz.bat
del current.bat
echo %date%

That will place the current date, in MM-DD-YYYY format, into the
variable %date%. When you want to restore the date, just use the
following commands:

echo %date%ate>nul
set date=

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