Finding day of week in batch file? (Windows Server 2008)

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Published on 2009-12-16T05:41:52Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 20:23 UTC
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I have a process I run from a batch file, and i only want to run it on a certain day of the week.
Is it possible to get the day of week?

All the example I found, somehow rely on "date /t" to return "Friday, 12/11/2009", however, in my machine, "date /t" returns "12/11/2009". No weekday there.

I've already checked the "regional settings" for my machine, and the long date format does include the weekday. The short date format doesn't, but i'd really rather not change that, since it'll affect a bunch of stuff I do.

Any ideas here?

Thanks!
Daniel

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