How to change date format when using _DateTimeFormat?

[frew]

Hello,

My goal here is to press a key combination to send the current date in this format, for example:

(the hotkey is not the problem...what I want is for this particular format to show up)

_5-27-18

At the moment I have a hotkey set to run this script that I found in the help file:

_DateTimeFormat

#include <Date.au3>
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

; Show current date/time in the pc's format
;MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Pc Long format", _DateTimeFormat(_NowCalc(), 1))     ;(not using this line of the script)
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Pc Short format", _DateTimeFormat(_NowCalc(), 2))

The result that shows up is

5/27/2018

What adjustments can I make to have this formatting show up instead:

_5-27-18

Thanks for any ideas.

Edit:

And how can I get this date and formatting to be in the Clipboard for easy pasting into names of Firefox articles I save.

That's why I'm interested in this. I like to save articles, and I put the date at the end of the article name,

but Windows does not allow slashes in the filenames.

EndEdit

 

Edit_2

I don't see this particular formatting option in the dropdown menu on this Windows 10

"change date and time formats" settings.

EndEdit_2

 

 

 

Edited May 27, 2018 by frew

[Gianni]

... if the problem is only the "/" char because is not allowed in filenames, then you could change it with a minus for example using the StringReplace() function like in this way:

StringReplace(_DateTimeFormat(_NowCalc(), 2), "/", "-")

... and put it in the clipboar using the ClipPut() function in this way
 

ClipPut(StringReplace(_DateTimeFormat(_NowCalc(), 2), "/", "-"))

 

[frew]

Thanks for the idea.

So now I have this script in order to get the exact results I want.
I'm a little embarrassed to show it, because I just keep modifying it until it
gets the results I want...so here it is:

 

expandcollapse popup

;when I click Ctrl+S to save a webpage in Firefox, when the dialog box comes up,
;I then press my hotkey I have set up, in this case I use Alt+1, and that runs
;this script to get the result that I want, in this case _5-27-18

#include <Date.au3>;edit: that #include <Date.au3> only showed up as #include until this edit
Sleep(100)

;note that Ctrl+S brings up the dialog box with the name field webpage name fully selected

;gets the mouse not over any other files in the dialog box,
;otherwise for some reason the other files names may show up in the name field
MouseMove(470, 920, 0)
Sleep(500)

;for some reason Send("{End}") does not affect the name field unless I
;move away from it with Tab then back to it,
;and for some reason I have to Tab 3, then Shift+Tab 2
Send("{TAB 3}")
Sleep(500)
Send("+{TAB 2}")
Sleep(500)

;after doing all that Tabbing, now End will go to the end of the name field
Send("{End}")
Sleep(500)

;gets rid of the .html at the end of the filename for now
Send("{BS 5}")
Sleep(500)

Send("_", 1);1 flag to send the underscore "Raw"
Sleep(500)

;this line is Chimps idea, at AutoIt forum, works nicely to replace slashes with dashes
;and puts the time now into the clipboard
ClipPut(StringReplace(_DateTimeFormat(_NowCalc(), 2), "/", "-"))

;then I modify the formatting "manually" a little further to get the exact result I want
Sleep(500)
Send("^v")
Sleep(500)
Send("{Left 2}")
Sleep(500)
Send("{BS 2}")
Sleep(500)

;then I click Enter to save the file with the date at the end formatted how I like it

I know it's not the best or most elegant way, but it works.

Thanks for any other ideas too.

Edited May 28, 2018 by frew