How can you set Dos date as YYYYMMDD in After Action script?

Question

Hellos...
I have been trying the standard method to get the DOS date as a format string YYYYMMDD
It seems to cause the AfterAction script to bomb.
I am trying this script ...
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE Waveset PUBLIC 'waveset.dtd' 'waveset.dtd'>
<Waveset>
<ResourceAction name='ISSHP-enable-email'>
<ResTypeAction restype='Windows Active Directory' timeout='60000'>
<act>
rem Action for MSE2007 test/development to Enable-Mailbox a new AD User created by IDM.
rem Set up environment as necessary (copy of idmadm account's environment)
rem Local script environment settings
     SET LogFileDrive=C
SET LogFileDir=%LogFileDrive%:\Sun\ADAfterActionsLog\
SET DBtoUse=idmex.sks.local\Mailbox Database
rem set TODAYDATE as yyyyddmm and TIMENOW as hhmmssdd to be used in the Log file name
     set TIMENOW=%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,2%%time:~9,2%
     for /F "tokens=2-4 delims=. " %i in ('date /t') do set TODAYDATE=%k%j%i
set >> %LogFileDir%AfterActionLog.txt
rem PS Commands from here...
exit
</act>
</ResTypeAction>
</ResourceAction>
</Waveset>
But the line
for /F "tokens=2-4 delims=. " %i in ('date /T') do set TODAYDATE=%k%j%i
is causing problems..
How have others managed to turn date /T into YYYYMMDD within an after action ??
I know in our Gateway date /T will output (today): pe 29.01.2010
GF

Answer 1

The output from the for command when run in the cmd shell is as expected.
I have tried both batch and command line variable settings in my action script i.e.
for /F "tokens=2,3,4 delims=. " %i in ('date /T') do echo %k%j%i
and
for /F "tokens=2,3,4 delims=. " %%i in ('date /T') do echo %%k%%j%%i
with no joy. I suspect that its the Gateway launched shell executor that is having problems with the for do command.
Anyways, using
set todaysdate=%date:~9,4%%date:~6,2%%date:~3,2%
solves my problem. Just curious why the for construct bombs in the resource action.
Thanks. GF