[MSH] Use cast or ToString()?

While parsing through a log file and extracting dates from a regex
into $matches.date, I noticed that I could use either of the following
to end up with the numeric day of the month (1..31) as a string :

$day=[string]([datetime]$matches.date).day

or

$day=([datetime]$matches.date).day.tostring()

Is it "Better" to use the cast or the ToString() method? Any views?

Thanks,
Chris
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