Windows time command prompt

Learn more. How to get Windows Command prompt to display time? Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 8 months ago. Active 15 days ago. Viewed 82k times. Improve this question. Linger 3, 10 10 gold badges 31 31 silver badges 43 43 bronze badges.

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Any additional feedback? LukeSampson, you can use set to do the math. No, this is a bad option. This tells you the wall-clock time, not the CPU time. So, even though your command line might take only ms, if there's another application hogging the CPU, your application may take seconds off by x or more. In fact, if your machine is thrashing, you could even wait a minute for your little ms app to run.

Track CPU time, not wall clock time! Show 6 more comments. Vladimir Veljkovic Vladimir Veljkovic 1, 1 1 gold badge 8 8 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges.

What if the command we want to measure has quotes? Can can this be turned into a. For example measureTime. Invalid switch -? Default is. If keyname is followed by a comma and a number then it will remove the slowest positive number or fastest negative times for that keyname.

Antony Hatchkins MikeA MikeA. This kit has issues with windows 64bit and does not work on R2 — Artem. FYI - I don't think timeit works on Windows 7 bit. You get the error "Unable to query system performance data c K suggests: stackoverflow. In Windows 7 I see "'timeit' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Does anyone know how to get this for 10? Nathan Herring Nathan Herring 8 8 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. This also won't work for the "spam" batches, which overwrite the first time label and implies that you replace the computer doing the computation, as noted in stackoverflow.

See also this answer. The best would probably be to pipe the output to a textfile for further analysis: MyBatchFile. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Treb Treb Thought I'd drop in a couple years behind the discussion to thank you for sharing the prompt command. I've seen a lot of CMD tricks more of a bash guy , but this one escaped my notice. Simple, elegant, no install and no writing a batch files for a one shot command and can time every step in a batch file. Abe Voelker Abe Voelker 27k 14 14 gold badges 78 78 silver badges 97 97 bronze badges.

When answering Windows questions, Cygwin is considered cheating :- — mivk. He has stipulated that ResourceKit, TimeMem, ptime. Therefore, author has made your comment inappropriate before you wrote it.

I have also upvoted this since I found it the easiest solution since the free program Cmder includes bash! I am the developer and use WSL. JohnW JohnW 2, 1 1 gold badge 25 25 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges.

And use "for" to extract only the time, not the text. However when you do that it only displays hours and minutes, which might not be good enough for some usages. See John Snow's answer to this question. I use freeware called "GS Timer". Just make a batch file like this: timer yourapp. I don't think using a third party application could be considered doing it "with standard means".

The questioner meant "without installing additional software", but then the top accepted answer also requires installing a whole Windows Resource Kit!

Anyway, timer. This is a planted link. SoftPedia is a click farm. Tom please explain, what do you mean "planted link"? Here's a direct link to the developer's own page: gammadyne.

It is an automatic process timer, or program timer. Murali Krishnan Murali Krishnan 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. As soon as you execute the command, Windows will access that time server, gets the time and syncs it with your system. As an alternative, you can also sync the time using the Settings app. In fact, compared to the command prompt or the control panel, the new options in the Settings app are far easier to access and use. If you use a custom time server then you have to follow the Command Prompt method shown above.

I hope that helps. If you are stuck or need some help, comment below and I will try to help as much as possible.