Powershell simplest method to get current time expressed as UTC
Probably something like this:
[DateTime]::UtcNow.ToString('u')Which is equivalent to:
[DateTime]::UtcNow.ToString((Get-Culture).DateTimeFormat.UniversalSortableDateTimePattern)For the bonus, I think the most straightforward way is just to replace Z with UTC:
[DateTime]::UtcNow.ToString('u').Replace('Z','UTC')I'm assuming you'll always want UTC since that what it seems like from your question. There doesn't appear to be a format string to get just the 3 letter time zone.
I tried this, and it also gives the result I want:
"[DateTime]::UtcNow.ToString('yyyyMMdd_HHmmss_UTC')"It is showing time in the format 20180108_152407_UTC so you can play with the date/time formatting as you wish basically