PowerShelled

This blog has moved to http://ThePowerShellGuy.com Greetings /\/\o\/\/ $AtomFeed = ("Atom.xml")
$PreviousItems = (" Working with a Path in MSH "," MSH MSN Instant messenger project (broken off) "," Running (Un-block) a downloaded script in MSH "," Timing the loading of your profile in MSH "," Tuning MSH in your Profile "," Einstein 2 + subtopic. "," Burn MSH ?? "," Monad and Adam (and a preview of my to-be AD provi... "," Windows MineSweeper cheat "," erroraction on new-item, my Wrong use of Stringbui... "," ")

Monday, November 28, 2005

MSH get-dateFormat function

I very handy function to get the current datetime Formats,
(finaly an end to all those trips to the controlpanel )

Function get-DateFormat{[System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat | select *Pattern}

I found the tip here : James Manning's blog,
What formats can I specify for date/time with the tf.exe command-line?

thank's alot that's another one for my toolbox ;-)

MSH>get-dateformat


FullDateTimePattern              : dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm:ss tt
LongDatePattern                  : dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy
LongTimePattern                  : h:mm:ss tt
MonthDayPattern                  : MMMM dd
RFC1123Pattern                   : ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH':'mm':'ss 'GMT'
ShortDatePattern                 : M/d/yyyy
ShortTimePattern                 : h:mm tt
SortableDateTimePattern          : yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss
UniversalSortableDateTimePattern : yyyy'-'MM'-'dd HH':'mm':'ss'Z'
YearMonthPattern                 : MMMM, yyyy

Also, as we are at dateformats now,
A nice one to try also :

(get-date).GetDateTimeFormats()

Pick one ;-)

*edit* as I just posted this I did think about that last command, and did think there should be a more "native" way to do this , and Yes ;-)

MSH>(get-UICulture).get_DateTimeFormat()


AMDesignator                     : AM
Calendar                         : System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar
DateSeparator                    : /
FirstDayOfWeek                   : Sunday
CalendarWeekRule                 : FirstDay
FullDateTimePattern              : dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm:ss tt
LongDatePattern                  : dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy
LongTimePattern                  : h:mm:ss tt
MonthDayPattern                  : MMMM dd
PMDesignator                     : PM
RFC1123Pattern                   : ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH':'mm':'ss 'GMT'
ShortDatePattern                 : M/d/yyyy
ShortTimePattern                 : h:mm tt
SortableDateTimePattern          : yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss
TimeSeparator                    : :
UniversalSortableDateTimePattern : yyyy'-'MM'-'dd HH':'mm':'ss'Z'
YearMonthPattern                 : MMMM, yyyy
AbbreviatedDayNames              : {Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat}
ShortestDayNames                 : {Su, Mo, Tu, We, Th, Fr, Sa}
DayNames                         : {Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday}
AbbreviatedMonthNames            : {Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec, }
MonthNames                       : {January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, }
IsReadOnly                       : True
NativeCalendarName               : Gregorian Calendar
AbbreviatedMonthGenitiveNames    : {Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec, }
MonthGenitiveNames               : {January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, }

gr /\/\o\/\/

posted by /\/\o\/\/

Comments:

Anonymous

Here's some more fun you can have with cultures.

An easy way to cycle through all the cultures that Windows supports:

foreach ($culture in [System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::GetCultures([System.Globalization.CultureTypes]::InstalledWin32Cultures))
{
[System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = $culture
"---------------------------------------"
$culture.EnglishName + " - " + $culture.LCID
"---------------------------------------"
[DateTime]::Now
}

Also, when you see methods called get_DateTimeFormat(), that is usually the underlying method behind a .Net property. So your example could also be written:

(get-UICulture).DateTimeFormat

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:35 PM

/\/\o\/\/

@ lee

(get-UICulture).DateTimeFormat

LOL, was waiting for that one

but I did not want to repost 2 times in 10 minutes ;-)

nice example, 2 bad there is no straight connection to the Timezone, otherwise you could output there local time ;-)

gr /\/\o\/\/

@ ls

PS timezone ofset info is found like this :
([timezone]::CurrentTimeZone).GetUtcOffset([dateTime]::now)

for daylight changes see also :
when to change your clock ? ask Monad !!
http://mow001.blogspot.com/2005/10/when-to-change-your-clock-ask-monad.html

# posted by

/\/\o\/\/ : 8:32 PM

/\/\o\/\/ PowerShelled

Monday, November 28, 2005

MSH get-dateFormat function

Archives

Links