PowerShell - Display months or days of the week in the desired culture

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Hello,

If you want to display the months or days of the week as a string value in the desired culture to embed in logs or reports, here’s how to do it in Powershell.

# Display the names of the months in the culture used.
1..12 | ForEach-Object -process {(Get-Culture).DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName($_)}

# Display the names of the abbreviated months in the crop used
1..12 | ForEach-Object -process {(Get-Culture).DateTimeFormat.GetAbbreviatedMonthName($_)}

# Display the names of the days of the week in the culture used
0..6 | ForEach-Object -process {(Get-Culture).DateTimeFormat.GetdayName($_)}
# The week starts on Sunday

# Display the names of the abbreviated days of the week in the culture used
0..6 | ForEach-Object -process {(Get-Culture).DateTimeFormat.GetAbbreviatedDayName($_)}

# Display the 1st letter of the days of the week in the culture used
0..6 | ForEach-Object -process {(Get-Culture).DateTimeFormat.GetshortestdayName($_)}


# Display month names in another culture
$Culture = 'en-us'
1..12 | ForEach-Object -process {[cultureinfo]::GetCultureInfo($Culture).DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName($_)}

# Display the names of the abbreviated month in another culture
1..12 | ForEach-Object -process {[cultureinfo]::GetCultureInfo($Culture).DateTimeFormat.GetAbbreviatedMonthName($_)}

# Display the names of the days of the week in another culture
0..6 | ForEach-Object -process {[cultureinfo]::GetCultureInfo($Culture).DateTimeFormat.GetdayName($_)}

# Display the names of the abbreviated days of the week in another culture
0..6 | ForEach-Object -process {[cultureinfo]::GetCultureInfo($Culture).DateTimeFormat.GetAbbreviatedDayName($_)}

# Display the 1st letter of the days of the week in another culture
0..6 | ForEach-Object -process {[cultureinfo]::GetCultureInfo($Culture).DateTimeFormat.GetshortestdayName($_)}


# You can also change the culture directly in the Powershell environment
[cultureinfo]::CurrentCulture = 'en-us

# Display the names of the months in the culture used
1..12 | ForEach-Object -process {(Get-Culture).DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName($_)}

# Display the names of the abbreviated months in the crop used
1..12 | ForEach-Object -process {(Get-Culture).DateTimeFormat.GetAbbreviatedMonthName($_)}


# List all available cultures
# Windows Powershell
[System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::GetCultures([System.Globalization.CultureTypes]::AllCultures)

# Powershell 7
Get-Culture -ListAvailable