Formatting Strings (re: Formatting DateTime)

[crobin1]

I saw Frink's post on formatting Date/Time and thought I'd throw this out. The -f format operator calls the .NET Format method on the System.String class. I know as Admins/non-coders seeing .NET leads to "but I'm not a programmer!". It can be helpful to dig through some of the documentation though.

In this case the solution to Frink's issue can be simplified to:

$datDateTimeFormatted = "{0:dd}/{0:MM}/{0:yyyy} {0:hh}:{0:mm}:{0:ss}" -f (Get-Date)

(or to quickly check interactively

"{0:dd}/{0:MM}/{0:yyyy}" -f (Get-Date)

Additional information can be found on Composite Formatting at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/txafckwd(VS.80).aspx

and various links off of there.