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+title: "PowerShell - Get day of weekday"
+excerpt: "In this short post we will see how we can use PowerShell to get an integer representing the number associated with the day of the week for the current date."
+categories:
+  - PowerShell
+  - Howto
+
+tags:
+  - PowerShell
+  - Tips
+  - HowTo
+
+toc: true
+header:
+  teaser: "/assets/images/PowerShell_Logo.png"
+---
+
+## PowerShell Get current date
+
+PowerShell natively supports getting the current, or specific, date via the following cmdlet:
+
+```powershell
+Get-Date
+```
+
+Which, by default, will produce the following output:
+
+```powershell
+Monday, February 21, 2022 10:11:39 PM
+```
+
+Cmdlet supports methods which can be used to display/return the day of the week for the selected date
+
+```powershell
+(Get-Date).DayOfWeek
+```
+
+There are situations where rather than returning a string with the day name it can be useful to return the **number** (1 to 7) associated with the day's name, this can easily be accomplished with the following command
+
+```powershell
+(Get-Date).DayOfWeek.value__
+
+# Output
+1
+```
+
+This is specially handy when inserting data into SQL datbase supporting dates as _TinyInt_ data types.