Search for a file name by time stamp

Powershell allows us to append the date faily easily to a file name (eg. "test.txt $(get-date -f dd-MM-yyyy).txt").  I'm looking for a simple script to search for a powershell script by a static name with todays date appended.  I
then want to move that file to a another location and rename it. For example lets say the file name is test.txt always and a 3rd party software names it to test12-9-14.txt daily so tommorow it would be test12-10-14.txt and so on.  Each day I need
to take the file testxx-xx-xxxx.txt from the the c:\ drive and move it to the w:\ drive and change the name from testxx-xx-xxxx.txt to test.csv.

I found the typo mm instead of MM which was my problem from the beginning.  MM represents month not mm.  A simple mistake that costed a lot of time.  Thanks Mike
Cheers, you're very welcome. Glad I could help out.
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