When you are scripting, there are times where you may need to get the date and time of a system. PowerShell offers the get-date cmdlet, which provides the date and time in many different formats of your choice.

To obtain the date object, execute the following command:

$time = get-date
$time

The output of this is shown in the following screenshot:

The standard get-date cmdlet, without any triggers, will generate the long date and time format. When you store the date object in a variable, it is important to remember that the data captured from the cmdlet is a snapshot in time. You'll have to call the get-date cmdlet again to get new values for the updated date and time.

The following table displays all of the date time formatting codes: