Use VBScript if you want to get independent date time settings:

thedate = Now
yr = Year(thedate)
mth = Month(thedate)
dy = Day(thedate)
hr = Hour(thedate)
min = Minute(thedate)
sec = Second(thedate)
WScript.Echo yr&mth&dy&hr&min&sec

Check out doff.exe. I use this a lot for getting timestamps for naming log files. From its web site:

DOFF prints a formatted date and time, with an optional date offset, (e.g -1 prints yesterday s date, +1 prints tomorrow s date). To view all the options available, execute "doff -h". I typically use this utility for renaming log files so that they include a timestamp, (see the third example below). This code should compile under Unix/Linux, as well as DOS.

Sample commands:

C:>doff
19991108131135

With no parameters the output is the current date/time in the following format: yyyymmddhhmiss

C:>doff mm/dd/yyyy
11/08/1999

In the above example a date format specification is given.

@echo off
for /f "tokens=1-3 delims=/ " %%a in ( doff mm/dd/yyyy -1 ) do (
set mm=%%a
set dd=%%b
set yyyy=%%c)
rename httpd-access.log httpd-access-%yyyy%%mm%%dd%.log

The sample batch file above shows a neat way to rename a log file based on yesterday s date. The "for" command executes doff to print yesterday s date, (the "-1" parameter specifies yesterday), then extracts each component of the date into DOS batch file variables. The "rename" command renames "httpd-access.log" to "httpd-access-[yesterday s date].log"

Also check out Microsoft s now.exe, available in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools. One bad thing I found out (the hard way) about it is it sets the ERRORLEVEL to the number of characters printed.

Looks like this:

c:>now

Thu May 19 14:26:45 2011

Help:

NOW   :  Display Message with Current Date and Time

Usage : NOW [message to be printed with time-stamp]

    NOW displays the current time, followed by its command-line arguments.
    NOW is similar to the standard ECHO command, but with a time-stamp.

Unfortunately, it can t be done directly, so you need to resort to hacks like GetDate.cmd.

There are lots of VBScript and small external commandline tools available too, which isn t something I d take a dependency on unless you re already using something of that nature in your overall system.

Personally, I d be trying to route around it by using PowerShell which neatly sidesteps the issue completely.

You don t need VBScript. You can do it with something like this:

echo %date:~-10,2%/%date:~-7,2%/%date:~-4,4%

Source

As I have posted in here: Batch: Timestamp to UNIX Time

What about simple 1-line long C program returning UNIX timestamp? You can retrieve value from %errorlevel% in batch script.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

int main(void)
{
    return (int) time(NULL);
}

In my test in command prompt it worked:

C:UsersdabaranDesktopcs50srcC>.	ime || echo %errorlevel% && set mytstamp=%errorlevel%
1419609373

C:UsersdabaranDesktopcs50srcC>echo %mytstamp%
1419609373