Question

I would like to run a batch only during a specific time of the day (range).

For instance the idea would be to have have it run from 07:00AM to 06:00PM.

I know that %TIME% returns current time, what’s missing now is a way to check this value and if she’s on the range provided the batch will execute, if not the batch will stop there.

Answer 1

This worked for me (Win7):

for /f “tokens=1-3 delims=:” %%a in (“%time%”) do if %%a geq 7 if %%a leq 18 echo hello

You can change echo hello to anything like goto ok and the next two lines would be for example goto end and :ok.

Don’t forget to paste it to a batch file or use %a instead of %%a if you try it directly in command prompt.