PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Create a Date String

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

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

 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