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Displays or sets the system date. If used without parameters, date displays the current system date setting and prompts you to enter a new date.

Important

You must be an administrator to use this command.

Syntax

date [/t | <month-day-year>]

Parameters

Parameter Description
<month-day-year> Sets the date specified, where month is the month (one or two digits, including values 1 through 12), day is the day (one or two digits, including values 1 through 31), and year is the year (two or four digits, including the values 00 through 99 or 1980 through 2099). You must separate values for month, day, and year with periods (.), hyphens (-), or slash marks (/).

Note: Be mindful if you use 2 digits to represent the year, the values 80-99 correspond to 1980 through 1999.
/t Displays the current date without prompting you for a new date.
/? Displays help at the command prompt.

Examples

If command extensions are enabled, to display the current system date, type:

date /t

To change the current system date to August 3, 2007, you can type any of the following:

date 08.03.2007
date 08-03-07
date 8/3/07

To display the current system date, followed by a prompt to enter a new date, type:

date

To keep the current date and return to the command prompt, press ENTER. To change the current date, type the new date based on your current date configuration, as seen in the second example above, and then press ENTER.