PowerShell get weekday name from a date

Question

Using powershell I want to get the week day name (Friday) from a date. Been googling and cant find this one. It so I can do an IF statement to do something if the date is a Friday.

Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Use Get-Date to produce a DateTime object, then call its DayOfWeek method. For example:

(get-date 01/01/2016).DayOfWeek