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Powershell Date Formatting

There are many date formatting options available to Powershell using the .net format specifiers.

I will show some examples below, and you can look to the end of this post to see alla vailable format specifiers.

To format a date to long date:
   "{0:D}" -f [DateTime]"7/14/2007"
Produces
   Saturday, 14 July 2007

To format a date to show day, date, and time:
   "{0:dddd, dd MMM yyyy, hh:mm:ss}" -f [DateTime]"7/14/2007"
Produces
   Saturday, 14 Jul 2007, 12:00:00

 

Dates

Note that date formatting is especially dependant on the system’s regional settings; the example strings here are from my local locale.
Specifier Type Example (Passed System.DateTime.Now)
d Short date 10/12/2002
D Long date December 10, 2002
t Short time 10:11 PM
T Long time 10:11:29 PM
f Full date & time December 10, 2002 10:11 PM
F Full date & time (long) December 10, 2002 10:11:29 PM
g Default date & time 10/12/2002 10:11 PM
G Default date & time (long) 10/12/2002 10:11:29 PM
M Month day pattern December 10
r RFC1123 date string Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:11:29 GMT
s Sortable date string 2002-12-10T22:11:29
u Universal sortable, local time 2002-12-10 22:13:50Z
U Universal sortable, GMT December 11, 2002 3:13:50 AM
Y Year month pattern December, 2002

Custom date formatting:

Specifier Type Example Example Output
dd Day {0:dd} 10
ddd Day name {0:ddd} Tue
dddd Full day name {0:dddd} Tuesday
f, ff, … Second fractions {0:fff} 932
gg, … Era {0:gg} A.D.
hh 2 digit hour {0:hh} 10
HH 2 digit hour, 24hr format {0:HH} 22
mm Minute 00-59 {0:mm} 38
MM Month 01-12 {0:MM} 12
MMM Month abbreviation {0:MMM} Dec
MMMM Full month name {0:MMMM} December
ss Seconds 00-59 {0:ss} 46
tt AM or PM {0:tt} PM
yy Year, 2 digits {0:yy} 02
yyyy Year {0:yyyy} 2002
zz Timezone offset, 2 digits {0:zz} -05
zzz Full timezone offset {0:zzz} -05:00
: Separator {0:hh:mm:ss} 10:43:20
/ Separator {0:dd/MM/yyyy} 10/12/2002

 

More details on the full range of format specifier strings here:
   http://eggins.com/files/folders/103/download.aspx 


Posted May 17 2007, 06:44 PM by David

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