Date in standard format for locale

This may seem trivial, but I'm just looking at powershell for the first
time, and I appear to have a discrepency in my output. When I say
discrepency, I mean I was expecting as stated in the help pages `Date in
standard format for locale`.
Here is my output with the latter representing what I was expecting to be
the result of the second command.
#-----start-----
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0> get-date -uformat %D
02/15/07
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0> get-date -uformat %x
02/15/07
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0> get-date -uformat %d/%m/%y
15/02/07
#------end------
My Windows `Regional Settings` etc. are all set accordingly for United
Kingdom defaults. Can anyone help, or is it a fact that the `%x` parameter
doesn't work correctly.

I get the same results.

PS> $host


Name : ConsoleHost
Version : 1.0.0.0
InstanceId : 9f23fe23-99dc-4cdb-a83b-cbb23badea45
UI :
System.Management.Automation.Internal.Host.InternalHostUserInterface
CurrentCulture : en-GB
CurrentUICulture : en-US
PrivateData : Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleHost+ConsoleColorProxy

using $host shows that the CurrentUICulture is set to US english which is
why you get the date format of mm/dd/yy

Need to dig a bit to see how to change it
--
Richard Siddaway
Please note that all scripts are supplied "as is" and with no warranty
Blog: http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/
PowerShell User Group: http://www.get-psuguk.org.uk


"ten.nigriv@virgin.net" wrote:

> This may seem trivial, but I'm just looking at powershell for the first
> time, and I appear to have a discrepency in my output. When I say
> discrepency, I mean I was expecting as stated in the help pages `Date in
> standard format for locale`.
> Here is my output with the latter representing what I was expecting to be
> the result of the second command.
> #-----start-----
> PS C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0> get-date -uformat %D
> 02/15/07
> PS C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0> get-date -uformat %x
> 02/15/07
> PS C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0> get-date -uformat %d/%m/%y
> 15/02/07
> #------end------
> My Windows `Regional Settings` etc. are all set accordingly for United
> Kingdom defaults. Can anyone help, or is it a fact that the `%x` parameter
> doesn't work correctly.
>

I get the same results.

PS> $host


Name : ConsoleHost
Version : 1.0.0.0
InstanceId : 9f23fe23-99dc-4cdb-a83b-cbb23badea45
UI :
System.Management.Automation.Internal.Host.InternalHostUserInterface
CurrentCulture : en-GB
CurrentUICulture : en-US
PrivateData : Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleHost+ConsoleColorProxy

using $host shows that the CurrentUICulture is set to US english which is
why you get the date format of mm/dd/yy

Need to dig a bit to see how to change it
--
Richard Siddaway
Please note that all scripts are supplied "as is" and with no warranty
Blog: http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/
PowerShell User Group: http://www.get-psuguk.org.uk


"ten.nigriv@virgin.net" wrote:

> This may seem trivial, but I'm just looking at powershell for the first
> time, and I appear to have a discrepency in my output. When I say
> discrepency, I mean I was expecting as stated in the help pages `Date in
> standard format for locale`.
> Here is my output with the latter representing what I was expecting to be
> the result of the second command.
> #-----start-----
> PS C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0> get-date -uformat %D
> 02/15/07
> PS C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0> get-date -uformat %x
> 02/15/07
> PS C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0> get-date -uformat %d/%m/%y
> 15/02/07
> #------end------
> My Windows `Regional Settings` etc. are all set accordingly for United
> Kingdom defaults. Can anyone help, or is it a fact that the `%x` parameter
> doesn't work correctly.
>