{"id":3001,"date":"2013-08-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/08\/20\/powertip-customize-how-powershell-displays-a-date\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-customize-how-powershell-displays-a-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-customize-how-powershell-displays-a-date\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Customize How PowerShell Displays a Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Easily customize the way Windows PowerShell displays a date.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily display the date as day-dash-month-dash-four-digit year?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Date<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet,specify a custom format by using the&nbsp;<strong>Format<\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>parameter, and use&nbsp;<strong>dd<\/strong>&nbsp;for the date,&nbsp;<strong>M<\/strong>&nbsp;for the month and&nbsp;<strong>yyyy<\/strong>&nbsp;for a four-digit year (this is case sensitive):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-Date -Format &#8220;dd-M-yyyy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Easily customize the way Windows PowerShell displays a date. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily display the date as day-dash-month-dash-four-digit year? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Date&nbsp;cmdlet,specify a custom format by using the&nbsp;Format&nbsp;parameter, and use&nbsp;dd&nbsp;for the date,&nbsp;M&nbsp;for the month and&nbsp;yyyy&nbsp;for a four-digit year (this is case sensitive): Get-Date -Format &#8220;dd-M-yyyy&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Easily customize the way Windows PowerShell displays a date. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily display the date as day-dash-month-dash-four-digit year? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Date&nbsp;cmdlet,specify a custom format by using the&nbsp;Format&nbsp;parameter, and use&nbsp;dd&nbsp;for the date,&nbsp;M&nbsp;for the month and&nbsp;yyyy&nbsp;for a four-digit year (this is case sensitive): Get-Date -Format &#8220;dd-M-yyyy&#8221;<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}