Command to check timezone in windows

This is IMHO the easiest solution if you want to use the date and time just for logging purposes J c J c 6, 3 3 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. Jeff Atwood DigiP DigiP 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Yordan Georgiev Yordan Georgiev 4, 1 1 gold badge 45 45 silver badges 52 52 bronze badges. Matthew Johnson Matthew Johnson 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges.

Is there a way to get the time in a 12 hour format and also to display AM or PM information? Just use this line: PowerShell -Command "get-date". JonathanDavidArndt 2, 13 13 gold badges 33 33 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges. John Langstaff John Langstaff 8 8 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Rainabba, that is exactly the error you get when that command is issued from the CMD line.

However, " from within a batch file ", the command returns " ". And here is a similar batch-file for the time portion. Any help would be very appreciated. Please take a look at the link for the details stackoverflow.

Ask a new question about that. I've never used forfiles. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Some do use years first, or lack leading zeroes; see Wikipedia's Date format by country. The French might use jj-mm-aaaa for jour, mois, annee? Germans tt. But then: I guess in most countries only a few languages are used. Good enough for me. As an aside: another version in Hidden features of Windows batch files is less perfect needs the fix for the Dutch jj , and does not enforce a 4 digit year , but uses shift to discard the day like Mon or ma.

Just different. It breaks on a German system. Year and month work, but day fails because "day" starts with a "T" in German "Tag" , not a "d".

Opening a new command prompt fixes that. So, you'll still need to cut off or otherwise deal with the "Tue" and the space character. Hi micahwittman. I have tried "forfiles" command but to no avail. Tomalak Tomalak k 64 64 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

KChiki KChiki 51 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. Put it in your Windows system32 folder. It has a lot of "date output" options. For help, use DateFormat. Sally Sally 95 2 2 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. Thanks, although this question is specifically for doing it without downloading additional tools. Gerhard Gerhard Adolfo Adolfo 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges.

Put it inside bin folder next to the batch script. References This awesome answer that I build upon. Brendan Harris Brendan Harris 31 3 3 bronze badges.

It seems that this comes with the regional issue - this doesn't work in all English machines. Not surprised, SteveFest. If it were possible to temporarily set the locale, that might help to provide a global solution, but it seems it's necessary to the know the region in advance.

Is your locale en-US or en-SomewhereElse? I'm super busy, but I'll try to update my answer to illustrate. I may be foolishly assuming zh-HK prints digits at fixed offsets.

As you can see, the time zone can be changed by the system, administrators, and all users. To prevent users from changing the time zone, remove the Users group from the list of accounts in this policy.

In Windows Server, only the Local Service and administrators have the privileges to change the time zone. It first appeared in Windows 7. Run the command prompt cmd. To find out the current time zone and its identifier TimeZoneID , run the command:. If you want to quickly find all available time zones for example, with an UTC -6 offset , run the command:. The current time zone is stored in the Windows registry. You can display complete information about the time zone and daylight-saving time settings as follows:.

Run the command:. The list of time zones is quite long. One of the most important key parameters of time, in addition to the current time and date, in all computer information systems is the Time Zone. The time zone on the computer is set according to the location.

This will correctly display the time in your operating system. To have this requirement in place, use local security policies for a change Local Security Settings — secpol. Step 3. Step 4.

Step 1: After logging into the Action1 dashboard, in the Navigation panel the left column , select Managed Endpoints and mark the endpoint on which you plan to change the time zone. Replace the Time Zone parameter with a particular time zone, e. Step 4: In the Select Managed Endpoints window, you mark those endpoints on which you are going to change the time zone. You can add all the available endpoints or mark them one by one. But actions do! Read the TechRadar review of our product or be the judge — get your free trial by signing up below.

Dec 1, How-to Articles. The NtpServer is a time server that responds to client time requests on the network by returning time samples that are useful for synchronizing the local clock. LargeSampleSkew All versions Specifies the large sample skew for logging, in seconds. Events will be logged for this setting only when EventLogFlags is explicitly configured for 0x2 large sample skew. The default value on domain members is 3. The default value on stand-alone clients and servers is 3.

ResolvePeerBackOffMaxTimes All versions Specifies the maximum number of times to double the wait interval when repeated attempts to locate a peer to synchronize with fail. A value of zero means that the wait interval is always the minimum.

The default value on domain members is 7. ResolvePeerBackoffMinutes All versions Specifies the initial interval to wait, in minutes, before attempting to locate a peer to synchronize with. SpecialPollInterval All versions Specifies the special poll interval, in seconds, for manual peers. When the SpecialInterval 0x1 flag is enabled, W32Time uses this poll interval instead of a poll interval determined by the operating system. The default value on domain members is 3, The default value on stand-alone clients and servers is , It contains reserved data that is used by the Windows operating system.

It specifies the time, in seconds, before W32Time will resynchronize after the computer has restarted. Any changes to this setting can cause unpredictable results. The default value on both domain members and on stand-alone clients and servers is left blank. The following registry entries are not a part of the W32Time default configuration but can be added to the registry to obtain enhanced logging capabilities. By default, the Windows Time service logs an event every time that it switches to a new time source.

These are the global Group Policy settings and default values for the Windows Time service. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Caution Don't use the Net time command to configure or set a computer's clock time when the Windows Time service is running.

Note If you have a computer with multiple network adapters is multi-homed , you cannot enable the Windows Time service based on a network adapter. Important Windows Server has improved the time synchronization algorithms to align with RFC specifications.

Note In this case, if you want to set the clock back slowly, you would also have to adjust the values of PhaseCorrectRate or UpdateInterval in the registry to make sure that the equation result is TRUE.

Note When you remove a Group Policy setting, Windows removes the corresponding entry from the policy area of the registry. Warning This information is provided as a reference for use in troubleshooting and validation. Note Some of the parameters in the registry are measured in clock ticks and some are measured in seconds. Ticks Property. Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback.

In this article. Registers the Windows Time service to run as a service and adds its default configuration information to the registry. Unregisters the Windows Time service and removes all of its configuration information from the registry. Monitors the Windows Time service. Converts a Windows NT system time measured in 10 -7 -second intervals starting from 0h 1-Jan into a readable format.

Converts an NTP time measured in 2 -second intervals starting from 0h 1-Jan into a readable format. Tells a computer that it should resynchronize its clock as soon as possible, throwing out all accumulated error statistics. Displays a strip chart of the offset between this computer and another computer. Displays the values associated with a given registry key. Displays the computer's Windows Time service information.

Enables or disables the local computer Windows Time service private log. Controls whether this computer is marked as a reliable time server.

A computer is not marked as reliable unless it is also marked as a time server. Not a time server 0x Always time server 0x Automatic time server 0x Always-reliable time server 0x Automatic reliable time server The default value for domain members is Controls whether or not the chaining mechanism is disabled.

If chaining is disabled set to 0 , a read-only domain controller RODC can synchronize with any domain controller, but hosts that do not have their passwords cached on the RODC will not be able to synchronize with the RODC. Specifies the maximum amount of time that an entry can remain in the chaining table before the entry is considered to be expired.

Expired entries may be removed when the next request or response is processed. The default value is 16 seconds. Controls the frequency at which an event that indicates the number of successful and unsuccessful chaining attempts is logged to the System log in Event Viewer. The default is 30 minutes. Controls the maximum number of entries that are allowed in the chaining table.