Making a Directory with DOS

You sure can. You should start off by formating the date to display in the format of your choice.
1. Open the region and Language Options in the Control Panel.
2. On the Regional Options Tab, under Standards and formats, click customize and change the date display to the format you want for your file structure.
3. In your batch file issue the md %date% command.
4. Remember to issue a cd\ command when you start and a cd C:\my directory command
before you make you're directory. This will put you in the proper place to create your new directory.

Good Luck,
Mike

I played with this a little and the problem is that the variable %date% uses "/" for a separator. So what you end up with is a 3 level directory. Like WED 10/ subfolder 22/ subfolder 03. Changing the separator in regional settings did fix it after starting a new DOS box. I used a "." for the separator and used the command {md mydir "%date%"} without the {}. The resulting directory was {mydir Wed 22.10.2003}. Should work just as well using the separator "-". But you can
not use "/" for your date separator.

Normally I use the format YYYYMMDD for files, thus in windows or dos the newest file/folder is at the end of the list and they are all in order of the creation date.

I have noticed though, that %date% does not seem to work properly On a Winnt pc.

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