Query the time zone from the command line I want to print the a bottom line with the echo command
this is my try but i get the error
@echo off set a="tzutil /g" echo %a% exit please help
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How can I print the timezone from a batch file using echo?
Use the following batch file (test.cmd):
@echo off setlocal for /f "tokens=*" %%f in ('tzutil /g') do ( echo %%f ) endlocal Example usage:
F:\test>test GMT Standard Time F:\test> Further Reading
- An A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line | SS64.com
- Windows CMD Commands (categorized) - Windows CMD - SS64.com
- For /f- Loop through command output - Windows CMD - SS64.com
- tzutil - Windows CMD - SS64.com
If you want to echo the time zone, all you need is:
@echo off tzutil /g echo. pause Unless you want to have quotes inside your variable, you want to put them before and after your set options like this: set "zone=tzutil /g" instead of having your first double quote after the equals sign. If your goal is to set the output of tzutil /g as a variable, you would do it like this:
@echo off for /f "tokens=* usebackq" %%A in (`tzutil /g`) do ( set "zone=%%A" ) echo %zone% pause Here you use for /f to loop through the output of a command, then set your variable using the parameter.
