RE: System for naming graphics files

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

The following command at the command prompt adds the current date to all
jpg files in the current directory that begin with "pic":

ren pic*.jpg "pic*%date:/=%.jpg"

So:

pic_pretty_sunset.jpg
becomes
pic_pretty_sunset.jpgThu 011509.jpg

pic_ugly_politician.jpg
becomes
pic_ugly_politician.jpgThu 011509.jpg

How could we turn that MMDDYY into YYYYMMDD, as David suggests below?

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> Subject: RE: System for naming graphics files
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> Or use the date convention that automatically sorts just the 
> way you really would want it to: YYMMDD That way, you won't 
> have January 2008 intermingled with January 2009; all the 08s 
> will be together and separate from all the 09s. 
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