Print time in a batch file (milliseconds)

Assaf Lavie picture Assaf Lavie · Mar 3, 2009 · Viewed 177k times · Source

How do I print the time (in ms) in a Windows batch file?

I want to measure the time that passes between lines in my batch file, but Windows's "time /T" does not print milliseconds.

Answer

Patrick Cuff picture Patrick Cuff · Mar 3, 2009

%time% should work, provided enough time has elapsed between calls:

@echo OFF

@echo %time%
ping -n 1 -w 1 127.0.0.1 1>nul
@echo %time%

On my system I get the following output:

6:46:13.50
6:46:13.60