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Mastering PowerShell Scripting

You're reading from   Mastering PowerShell Scripting Automate and manage your environment using PowerShell 7.1

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800206540
Length 788 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Chris Dent Chris Dent
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to PowerShell 2. Modules and Snap-Ins FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Objects in PowerShell 4. Operators 5. Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables 6. Conditional Statements and Loops 7. Working with .NET 8. Strings, Numbers, and Dates 9. Regular Expressions 10. Files, Folders, and the Registry 11. Windows Management Instrumentation 12. Working with HTML, XML, and JSON 13. Web Requests and Web Services 14. Remoting and Remote Management 15. Asynchronous Processing 16. Graphical User Interfaces 17. Scripts, Functions, and Script Blocks 18. Parameters, Validation, and Dynamic Parameters 19. Classes and Enumerations 20. Building Modules 21. Testing 22. Error Handling 23. Debugging and Troubleshooting 24. Other Books You May Enjoy
25. Index

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 on Microsoft Docs:

https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/standard/base-types/custom-date-and-time-format-strings

The ParseExact method accepts one or more format strings, and returns a DateTime object:

$string = '20170102...
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