PowerShell Logo Small

Get-Culture



This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Get-Culture', in PowerShell version 5 - as retrieved from Windows version 'Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.

For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.

SYNOPSIS

Gets the current culture set in the operating system.

SYNTAX


Get-Culture [-InformationAction {SilentlyContinue | Stop | Continue | Inquire | Ignore | Suspend}] [-InformationVariable [<System.String>]] [<CommonParameters>]



Search powershellhelp.space

DESCRIPTION


The Get-Culture cmdlet gets information about the current culture settings. This includes information about the current language settings on the system, such as the keyboard
layout, and the display format of items such as numbers, currency, and dates.


You can also use the Get-UICulture cmdlet, which gets the current user interface culture on the system, and the Set-Culture cmdlet in the International module. The
user-interface (UI) culture determines which text strings are used for user interface elements, such as menus and messages.



<

RELATED LINKS

Online Version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=293965
Set-Culture
Get-UICulture

REMARKS

<

Examples


-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------

PS C:\>get-culture



This command displays information about the regional settings on the computer.










-------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------

PS C:\>$c = get-culture
PS C:\>$c | format-list -property *

Parent : en
LCID : 1033
KeyboardLayoutId : 1033
Name : en-US
IetfLanguageTag : en-US
DisplayName : English (United States)
NativeName : English (United States)
EnglishName : English (United States)
TwoLetterISOLanguageName : en
ThreeLetterISOLanguageName : eng
ThreeLetterWindowsLanguageName : ENU
CompareInfo : CompareInfo - 1033
TextInfo : TextInfo - 1033
IsNeutralCulture : False
CultureTypes : SpecificCultures, InstalledWin32Cultures, FrameworkCultures
NumberFormat : System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo
DateTimeFormat : System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo
Calendar : System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar
OptionalCalendars : {System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar, System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar}
UseUserOverride : True
IsReadOnly : False

PS C:\>$c.calendar

MinSupportedDateTime : 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM
MaxSupportedDateTime : 12/31/9999 11:59:59 PM
AlgorithmType : SolarCalendar
CalendarType : Localized
Eras : {1}
TwoDigitYearMax : 2029
IsReadOnly : False

PS C:\>$c.datetimeformat

AMDesignator : AM
Calendar : System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar
DateSeparator : /
FirstDayOfWeek : Sunday
CalendarWeekRule : FirstDay
FullDateTimePattern : dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm:ss tt
LongDatePattern : dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy
LongTimePattern : h:mm:ss tt
MonthDayPattern : MMMM dd
PMDesignator : PM
RFC1123Pattern : ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH':'mm':'ss 'GMT'
ShortDatePattern : M/d/yyyy
ShortTimePattern : h:mm tt
SortableDateTimePattern : yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss
TimeSeparator : :
UniversalSortableDateTimePattern : yyyy'-'MM'-'dd HH':'mm':'ss'Z'
YearMonthPattern : MMMM, yyyy
AbbreviatedDayNames : {Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed...}
ShortestDayNames : {Su, Mo, Tu, We...}
DayNames : {Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...}
AbbreviatedMonthNames : {Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr...}
MonthNames : {January, February, March, April...}
IsReadOnly : False
NativeCalendarName : Gregorian Calendar
AbbreviatedMonthGenitiveNames : {Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr...}
MonthGenitiveNames : {January, February, March, April...}

PS C:\>$c.datetimeformat.firstdayofweek
Sunday



This example demonstrates the vast amount of data in the culture object. It shows how to display the properties and sub-properties of the object.

The first command uses the Get-Culture cmdlet to get the current culture settings on the computer. It stores the resulting culture object in the $c variable.

The second command displays all of the properties of the culture object. It uses a pipeline operator (|) to send the culture object in $c to the Format-List cmdlet. It uses
the Property parameter to display all (*) properties of the object. (This command can be abbreviated as "$c | fl *".)

The remaining commands explore the properties of the culture object by using dot notation to display the values of the object properties. You can use this notation to
display the value of any property of the object.

The third command uses dot notation to display the value of the Calendar property of the culture object.

The fourth command uses dot notation to display the value of the DataTimeFormat property of the culture object.

Many object properties have properties. The fifth command uses dot notation to display the value of the FirstDayOfWeek property of the DateTimeFormat property.