{"id":8251,"date":"2015-01-21T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/01\/21\/powertip-use-powershell-to-display-format-for-short-date\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:35:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:35:52","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-display-format-for-short-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-display-format-for-short-date\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Display Format for Short Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to display the culture-specific format for a short date.<\/span><\/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 format of a short date that is specific to the culture settings <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;of my system?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><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;<b>Get-Culture<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and select the&nbsp;<b>DateTimeFormat<\/b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>ShortDatePattern&nbsp;<\/b>properties:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">(Get-Culture).DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display the culture-specific format for a short date. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to display the format of a short date that is specific to the culture settings &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;of my system? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Culture&nbsp;cmdlet and select the&nbsp;DateTimeFormat&nbsp;and&nbsp;ShortDatePattern&nbsp;properties: (Get-Culture).DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern<\/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":[13,356,3,4,45],"class_list":["post-8251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-dates-and-times","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display the culture-specific format for a short date. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to display the format of a short date that is specific to the culture settings &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;of my system? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Culture&nbsp;cmdlet and select the&nbsp;DateTimeFormat&nbsp;and&nbsp;ShortDatePattern&nbsp;properties: (Get-Culture).DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251","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=8251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251\/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=8251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}