Question of PowerShell vs. CMD/BATCH

I have a little issue that is starting to come up in more of my scripts as I am slowly moving my scripts from BATCH to PowerShell.

My question is, how do I do this (ECHO %DATE%:~0,3%) from my BATCH scripts in a PowerShell script?

I've found one way I can get the small piece of information I need but I'm not satisfied with how I have to go about getting it.

I almost think it is possible to do this a bit simpler than:

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$DATERAW = Get-Date
$DAYWEEK = $DATERAW.DayOfWeek
$DAYQUTE = "$DAYWEEK"
$DAYABRV = $DAYQUTE.Remove(3)
ECHO $DAYABRV

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Any insight would be appriciated.

Thank you in advance.

Daniel

Assistant IT MGR