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8.1 Get the System Date and Time

Problem

You want to get the system date.

Solution

To get the system date, run the command Get-Date.

Discussion

The Get-Date command generates rich object-based output, so you can use its result for many date-related tasks. For example, to determine the current day of the week:

PS > $date = Get-Date
PS > $date.DayOfWeek
Sunday

If you want to format the date for output (for example, as a logfile stamp), see Recipe 5.13.

For more information about the Get-Date cmdlet, type Get-Help Get-Date.

For more information about working with classes from the .NET Framework, see Recipe 3.8.

See Also

Recipe 3.8, “Work with .NET Objects”

Recipe 5.13, “Format a Date for Output”