There is a handy and free tool to check your system's uptime called "Uptime". (Clever, no?) It can be downloaded at http://uptimeexe.codeplex.com.
While it is very easy to use (just navigate to it in a command window and type "uptime"), it doesn't give much of an option for formatting the output to include only the days. So, a simple workaround is to use some "replace" commands within PowerShell and only output the number of days. Here's how:
cd c:\uptime
$server = "SERVER_NAME";
$up = .\uptime.exe $server;
$days = $up -replace "\\\\" + $server + " has been up for: ";
$days = $days -replace " day(.*)$";
$days;
