{"id":4035,"date":"2013-03-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/03\/11\/powertip-display-the-date-in-month-day-year-format\/"},"modified":"2013-03-11T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-display-the-date-in-month-day-year-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-display-the-date-in-month-day-year-format\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Display the Date in Month, Day, Year Format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to display the date in a month, day, and two-digit year format.<\/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 display the date in a month, day, and two-digit number format with a hyphen between each of the elements?<\/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>ToString<\/strong>&nbsp;method from the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Date<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet and specify a pattern to achieve your desired results:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px\">PS C:\\&gt; (get-date).ToString(&#8220;MM-dd-yy&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px\">03-11-13<\/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: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to display the date in a month, day, and two-digit year format. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to display the date in a month, day, and two-digit number format with a hyphen between each of the elements? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;ToString&nbsp;method from the&nbsp;Get-Date&nbsp;cmdlet and specify a pattern to achieve [&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-4035","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: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to display the date in a month, day, and two-digit year format. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to display the date in a month, day, and two-digit number format with a hyphen between each of the elements? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;ToString&nbsp;method from the&nbsp;Get-Date&nbsp;cmdlet and specify a pattern to achieve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035","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=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/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=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}