Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to format dates.
How can I discover the formats that are available to use in Windows PowerShell when I format date and time information?
One way is to keep this script handy and run it when you have a date formatting issue to output common formats:
"d ShortDatePattern : {0} " -f (get-date -Format d )
"D LongDatePattern : {0} " -f (get-date -Format D )
"f Full date and time (long date and short time) : {0} " -f (get-date -Format f )
"F FullDateTimePattern (long date and long time) : {0} " -f (get-date -Format F )
"g General (short date and short time) : {0} " -f (get-date -Format g )
"G General (short date and long time) : {0} " -f (get-date -Format G )
"m MonthDayPattern : {0} " -f (get-date -Format m )
"M MonthDayPattern : {0} " -f (get-date -Format M )
"o Round-trip date/time pattern always uses the invariant culture : {0} " -f (get-date -Format o )
"O Round-trip date/time pattern always uses the invariant culture : {0} " -f (get-date -Format O )
"r RFC1123Pattern always uses the invariant culture : {0} " -f (get-date -Format r )
"R RFC1123Pattern always uses the invariant culture : {0} " -f (get-date -Format R )
"s SortableDateTimePattern always uses the invariant culture : {0} " -f (get-date -Format s )
"t ShortTimePattern : {0} " -f (get-date -Format t )
"T LongTimePattern : {0} " -f (get-date -Format T )
"u UniversalSortableDateTimePattern : {0} " -f (get-date -Format u )
"U Full date and time - universal time : {0} " -f (get-date -Format u )
"y YearMonthPattern : {0} " -f (get-date -Format y )
"Y YearMonthPattern : {0} " -f (get-date -Format Y )
"`nCustom Formats"
"d/M/y : {0} " -f (get-date -Format d/M/y )
"%d/%M/yy : {0} " -f (get-date -Format d/M/yy )
"dd/MM/yyyy : {0} " -f (get-date -Format dd/MM/yyyyy )
"dd/MM/yyyy %g : {0} " -f (get-date -Format 'dd/MM/yyyyy %g')
"dd/MM/yyyy gg : {0} " -f (get-date -Format 'dd/MM/yyyyy gg')
"dddd dd/MM/yyyy gg : {0} " -f (get-date -Format 'dddd dd/MM/yyyyy gg')
"dddd dd/MM/yyyy %h:m:s tt gg : {0} " -f (get-date -Format 'dddd dd/MM/yyyyy %h:m:s tt gg')
"dddd dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:s tt gg : {0} " -f (get-date -Format 'dddd dd/MM/yyyyy hh:mm:s tt gg')
"dddd dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:s gg : {0} " -f (get-date -Format 'dddd dd/MM/yyyyy HH:mm:s gg')
"dddd dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:s.ffff gg : {0} " -f (get-date -Format 'dddd dd/MM/yyyyy HH:mm:s.ffff gg')
"dddd dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:s.ffff gg : {0} " -f (get-date -Format 'dddd dd MMM yyyyy HH:mm:s.ffff gg')
"dddd dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:s.ffff gg : {0} " -f (get-date -Format 'dddd dd MMMM yyyyy HH:mm:s.ffff gg')
"dddd dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:s.ffff zz gg : {0} " -f (get-date -Format 'dddd dd MMMM yyyyy HH:mm:s.ffff zz gg')
"dddd dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:s.ffff zzz gg : {0} " -f (get-date -Format 'dddd dd MMMM yyyyy HH:mm:s.ffff zzz gg')