Date Format in Text file

Friends,
I am generating a file through some script and need to add the date in front of it. I used cmd command and created a batch file but the format is coming as test.txt_12272013 but it should be Test.txt_20131227
(YYYYMMDD)
ren c:\testt\testing.txt test_%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%%date:~10,4%.txt
Could you guys please help

Thank you Johnny. Actually I was looking for test_20121217.txt (YYYYMMDD) format but i figured it out
below is the string i had to use to get the YYYYMMDD format through DOS prompt
_%date:~10,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%.txt

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