Formatting date and time in PowerShell

Question

I want yesterday's date as "MMdd", like "0418" today's date is "0419".

I tried this:

$d = (Get-Date).AddDays(-1) | select -Property Month,Day
$e = $d.Day

$d = $d.Month

$total = "$d" + "$e"

Write-Host $total

But the output was "418".

As you can see, this is a three-letter string, but I want a four-letter one. Because I want to search files they have that format and created a day before.

Andrew Shepherd · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-20 00:28:34Z

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The date object has a method ToString, which allows you to specify the format:

$d = (Get-Date).AddDays(-1);
$d.ToString("MMdd");

I am calling this on April the 20th, and the output is

0419

See this link for a description of the available date format strings.

answered Apr 20, 2016 at 0:28

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