Someone on the AnandTech forums requested an example of how to do this, so here it is.

This program receives two inputs at the command line. The first is a path to store a log. The second is the command line string to execute. Then, the program will pipe all the console output to a file named as the current timestamp in YYMMDD_hhmmss format.

For example, if we wanted to log the following command:

dir /O

We'd instead enter the following into the command line:

TimeStampLogger c:\logs\ dir /O

Then it'll pipe the command "dir /O" into a text file in the c:\logs directory. The name of the file will be the system's current time in the above mentioned format with a ".txt" file extension.

This has been compiled with MinGW under Microsoft Windows Vista 64 bit. Some slight modification may be necessary for this program to compile and/or function under a different compiler and/or operating system.