Windows ISO 8601 timestamp

windows powershell timestamp iso8601
M.S. picture M.S. · Aug 15, 2017 · Viewed 18.8k times · Source

I need to convert a date in Windows PowerShell to the ISO 8601 format.

In Linux/Unix it was no problem with 

TZ=0 date -d "<random-format>" +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.000Z

Now I need to do the same in Windows PowerShell. The output format on Windows is

Wednesday, 19. July 2017 01:06:13

How can I do it?

Answer

vonPryz picture vonPryz · Aug 15, 2017

PowerShell's Get-Date supports standard .NET time formats. The o round-trip format complies with ISO 8601. Like so,

Get-Date -Format "o"

2017-08-15T12:10:34.4443084+03:00

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