Why does PowerShell always use US culture when casting to DateTime?

Question

When trying to read a CSV yesterday, I noticed that PowerShell seems to always assume US date format when using [datetime]\"date\".

My regional

Answer 1

You can force the culture for a single command if needed:

PS C:\> [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = "en-US" ; [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = "en-US"; [DateTime]::Parse("12/10/2012")

Monday, December 10, 2012 12:00:00 AM

PS C:\> [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = "en-GB" ; [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = "en-GB"; [DateTime]::Parse("12/10/2012")

12 October 2012 00:00:00