You can use the following methods to get the current day of the week in PowerShell:
Method 1: Get Day of Week as Number (e.g. 1=Monday, 7 = Sunday)
Get-Date -UFormat %u
Method 2: Get Day of Week as Full Name (e.g. “Sunday”)
Get-Date -UFormat %A
Method 3: Get Day of Week as Abbreviated Name (e.g. “Sun”)
Get-Date -UFormat %a
The following examples show how to use each method in practice.
Example 1: Get Day of Week as Number in PowerShell
This article is currently being written on a Wednesday.
We can use the following syntax to get the current day of the week as a number between 1 and 7 in PowerShell:
Get-Date -UFormat %u
The following screenshot shows how to use this syntax in practice:
This returns 3, which is the number that corresponds to Wednesday as the day of the week.
Example 2: Get Day of Week as Full Name in PowerShell
We can use the following syntax to get the day of the week as a full name in PowerShell:
Get-Date -UFormat %A
The following screenshot shows how to use this syntax in practice:
This returns Wednesday, which is the day of the week represented as the full name.
Example 3: Get Day of Week as Abbreviated Name in PowerShell
We can use the following syntax to get the day of the week as an abbreviated name in PowerShell:
Get-Date -UFormat %a
The following screenshot shows how to use this syntax in practice:
This returns Wed, which is the day of the week represented as the abbreviated name.
Note: You can find the complete documentation for the Get-Date cmdlet in PowerShell here.
Related Tutorials
The following tutorials explain how to perform other common tasks in PowerShell:
PowerShell: How to Get Month Name
PowerShell: How to Get Yesterday’s Date
PowerShell: How to Sort an Array of Strings by Date
