Manipulating dates and times

DateTime objects may be created in several ways. The Get-Date command is one of these. The DateTime type has several static methods that can be used, and an instance of DateTime has methods that might be used.Working with dates includes converting a string representing a date into a DateTime object or finding a date that is relative to the current date and time.

Parsing dates

The Get-Date command is the best first stop for converting strings into dates. Get-Date deals with a reasonable number of formats.If, however, Get-Date is unable to help, the DateTime class has two static methods that can be used:

• ParseExact
• TryParseExact

The format strings used by these methods are documented in the .NET reference:https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/standard/base-types/custom-date-and-time-format-stringsThe ParseExact method accepts one or more format strings, and returns a DateTime object:

$string = '20170102-2030'
[DateTime]::ParseExact(
    $string,
...