Hi! Robert,

In a message to All you wrote:

 RB> Some of you may know Scott Dudley's utility CMDTIME;

Nope, never heard of it before.  :)

 RB> CMDTIME isn't completely Y2K-fixed (4-digit year OK, 2-digit year
[ ...trim... ]
 RB> asked for comments.  Would anyone else like to jump in and test it?
 RB> Two version available, Win95 (etc.) and Linux.  No plain DOS or OS/2 
 RB> (sorry, Bat).

I'm running Win95b here.  Once I finally twigged to the purpose of the
program, it seemed to work fine.  For that sort of functionality I would
have been more tempted to use either PSIS or LOGECHO, since I wasn't aware
of CMDTIME.

Anyhow.  On with the testing...

  [C:\RUBBISH\DELETE]cmdtime --e copy \config.sys .\{at}Q{at}a {at}a.txt{at}Q
  Command: copy \config.sys .\"Mon Mon.txt"
          1 file(s) copied

  [C:\RUBBISH\DELETE]cmdtime --e copy \config.sys .\{at}Q{at}Z.txt{at}Q
  Command: copy \config.sys .\"E. Austral_+.txt"
          1 file(s) copied

Then I set TZ, after reading the doco more closely.[slap! to the forehead]

  [C:\RUBBISH\DELETE]cmdtime --e copy \config.sys .\{at}Q{at}Z.txt{at}Q
  Command: copy \config.sys .\"EST.txt"
          1 file(s) copied

Which produced...

  [C:\RUBBISH\DELETE]dir

   Volume in drive C is ST_5185A
   Volume Serial Number is 2E25-1766
   Directory of C:\RUBBISH\DELETE

  .                      30/08/00  17:09 .
  ..                     30/08/00  17:09 ..
  AVIEWTMP               30/08/00  17:09 AVIEWTMP
  2003-0~1 TXT           528  06/04/03  18:48 2003-04-21.txt
  CMDTIME  EXE        16,896  20/04/03  16:45 cmdtime.exe
  DONTOPEN ZIP       359,585  20/04/03  15:48 DontOpen.zip
  EAUSTR~1 TXT           528  06/04/03  18:48 E. Austral÷¿.txt
  EST      TXT           528  06/04/03  18:48 EST.txt
  FAXNUMS  ZIP           820  03/12/02  15:32 faxnums.zip
  MONMON~1 TXT           528  06/04/03  18:48 Mon Mon.txt
           7 file(s)        379,413 bytes
           3 dir(s)     246,988,800 bytes free

Interesting result when TZ wasn't set, hey.  Yikes!  I just spotted the
file creation dates; WTF did 18:48 on 6 April come from!?!  I only did the
tests about 10 minutes ago.  Mmm... is that one of the problems you had in
mind?

Cheers,
Paul.

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