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DOS批处理 & 脚本技术（批处理室） » [Original] Batch script to get the previous day's date
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Floor1　mayining Posted 2008-01-17 10:57
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This is part of a bat I just wrote a few days ago. This is my first time writing a bat script. Those days I was often soaking in the union to learn bat knowledge, and I'm very grateful to the brothers in the union!

Since batch scripts are very widely used in automatic file uploading, getting the date of the previous day is a problem that is mostly encountered when completing this task, so I post the code here for newbies like me to refer to.

My method is a bit of a trick: if today is the 1st, then I need to handle the month (maybe the year), and then list the last day of the previous month. For example, October must definitely have 31 days, but February needs special handling. I need to calculate whether it's a leap year. The specific calculation method can be seen in my code. I'm sure this won't stump everyone. Finally, I just put the date together to get the date of the previous day.

I hope everyone has a better method and post the code to share it :)
Floor2　daker Posted 2008-01-17 12:27
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Why not use for /l???
Floor3　honghunter Posted 2008-01-17 13:06
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Give a like, thanks for sharing.
Floor4　daker Posted 2008-01-17 14:39
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I used FOR /L to modify it, just for my own practice~~~~ It should be more concise~~

::--------生成最后日期----------
echo 生成最后日期时间...

set TodayYear=%date:~0,4%
set TodayMon=%date:~5,2%
set TodayDay=%date:~8,2%

set LastdayYear=
set LastdayMon=
set LastdayDay=

set LastdayYear=%TodayYear%
set LastdayMon=%TodayMon%
set /A LastdayDay=TodayDay-1


if "%LastdayDay%" == "0" (
if "!LastdayMon!" == "01" (
set LastdayMon=12
set /A LastdayYear-=1
) else (
set /A LastdayMon-=1
for /l %%a in (1,1,9) do if !LastdayMon! == %%a (set LastdayMon=0%%a)
)



for /l %%a in (1,2,7) do (
if !LastdayMon! equ %%a (set set LastdayDay=31)
else
for /l %%a in (8,2,12) do if !LastdayMon! equ %%a (set set LastdayDay=31)
else
if "!LastdayMon!" == "02" (
set IsLeapYear=

set /A IsLeapYear=!LastdayYear!%%400
if "!IsLeapYear!" == "0" (
set LastdayDay=29
goto MAKELASTDATE
)

set /A IsLeapYear=!LastdayYear!%%100
if "!IsLeapYear!" == "0" (
set LastdayDay=28
goto MAKELASTDATE
)

set /A IsLeapYear=!LastdayYear%%4
if "!IsLeapYear!" == "0" (
set LastdayDay=29
goto MAKELASTDATE
)
else (
set LastdayDay=28
goto MAKELASTDATE
)
)
else set LastdayDay=30
)
)

:MAKELASTDATE
for /l %%a in (1,1,9) do if %LastdayDay% == 1 (set LastdayDay=0%%a)

set LastDate=%LastdayYear%.%LastdayMon%.%LastdayDay%

echo 生成最后日期时间成功！
Floor5　HAT Posted 2008-01-17 15:14
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Find the date N days ago
http://www.cn-dos.net/forum/viewthread.php?tid=31296
Floor6　mayining Posted 2008-01-17 16:30
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Well, Brother daker, I have carefully read your code. It's indeed much more concise than mine. I didn't consider that using for /l could solve the problem of known - length strings at that time. Thanks a lot! I've also looked at Brother HAT's code. His code is more powerful in functionality, and the solutions 2 and 3 deal with it from the mathematical essence of dates, which feels much more professional. I think when I have time, I'll write a script calendar program, so that I can fundamentally solve the defects of the date function in bat. I wonder if someone has already done it? Well, closing the thread. Thanks to everyone again.
Floor7　fzp1978321 Posted 2008-03-06 12:03
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Then how to get the date of the previous day under WIN2000? These are all under XP environment.
Floor8　xaleibin Posted 2008-10-01 04:52
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You should add a line "setlocal enabledelayedexpansion" at the front of the batch file, which means enabling variable delay; otherwise, this program will not execute normally. I have tried it. Finally, thank you for sharing, which helped me solve the problem.
Floor9　xaleibin Posted 2008-10-01 04:54
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Only when variable delay is enabled can you use !! to enclose the variable name to represent the reference to the variable value.
Floor10　yanglei Posted 2009-11-05 22:26
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If there is a database connection, you can take sysdate - 1 from the database, write it to a file, and then take out the date of the previous day from the file... The premise is that you can connect to the database, heh heh
Floor11　hbby Posted 2009-12-16 15:51
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@echo off
echo Wscript.echo dateadd("d",-1,date)>vbs.vbs
for /f %%a in ('cscript //nologo vbs.vbs') do del vbs.vbs&&echo %%a
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