November 7th, 2013

PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Create a Date String

Doctor Scripto
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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to create a date string that has a month, day, and year.

Hey, Scripting Guy! Question How can I use Windows PowerShell to create a string that represents the date with the month, day, and year?

Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer Feed a pattern of ‘M/d/y’ to the ToString method from Get-Date:

PS C:\> (get-date).ToString(‘M/d/y’)

10/28/13

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Scripting
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PowerTipScripting Guy!Windows PowerShell

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