{"id":4024,"date":"2013-03-14T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/03\/14\/powertip-use-unix-date-formatting-in-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-03-14T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-unix-date-formatting-in-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-unix-date-formatting-in-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use UNIX Date Formatting in PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: &nbsp;Learn how to use UNIX date formatting in Windows PowerShell.<\/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 my prior knowledge of UNIX date formatting to specify dates in Windows PowerShell?<\/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\" \/>Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Date&nbsp;<\/strong>cmdlet and the&nbsp;<strong>&ndash;Uformat<\/strong>&nbsp;parameter. For example, to display a date in standard format for your current locale, use the &ldquo;x&rdquo; format specifier:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px\">PS C:\\&gt; Get-Date -UFormat %x<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px\">03\/11\/13&nbsp;<\/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: &nbsp;Learn how to use UNIX date formatting in Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use my prior knowledge of UNIX date formatting to specify dates in Windows PowerShell? Use the&nbsp;Get-Date&nbsp;cmdlet and the&nbsp;&ndash;Uformat&nbsp;parameter. For example, to display a date in standard format for your current locale, use the &ldquo;x&rdquo; format specifier: PS C:\\&gt; Get-Date -UFormat %x [&hellip;]<\/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-4024","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: &nbsp;Learn how to use UNIX date formatting in Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use my prior knowledge of UNIX date formatting to specify dates in Windows PowerShell? Use the&nbsp;Get-Date&nbsp;cmdlet and the&nbsp;&ndash;Uformat&nbsp;parameter. For example, to display a date in standard format for your current locale, use the &ldquo;x&rdquo; format specifier: PS C:\\&gt; Get-Date -UFormat %x [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","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=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/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=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}