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Time and Dates - Handle temporal data like day of week, clock time, or first day of month

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Overview

  • [DateTime] Timestamp as date and time
    Date, Day, DayOfWeek, DayOfYear, Hour, Kind, Millisecond, Minute, Month, Second, Ticks, TimeOfDay, Year, DateTime

  • [DateTimeOffset] Time interval contains
    Date, DateTime, Day, DayOfWeek, DayOfYear, Hour, LocalDateTime, Millisecond, Minute, Month, Offset, Second, Ticks, TimeOfDay, UtcDateTime, UtcTicks, Year

Get current timestamp

[DateTime] $currentTimestamp1 = Get-Date
[DateTime] $currentTimestamp2 = [DateTime]::Now
[DateTime] $currentUtcTimestamp = [DateTime]::UtcNow
[Int64] $unixMillis = [DateTimeOffset]::Now.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds()
[Int64] $unixSeconds = [DateTimeOffset]::Now.ToUnixTimeSeconds()

Get specific timestamp

[DateTime] $nowNewYearsEve = Get-Date -Year 1999 -Month 12 -Day 31
[DateTime] $midnightNewYearsEve = [DateTime]"1999-12-31" 
[DateTime] $todayQuarterToTwelve = [DateTime]"23:45:33" 
[DateTime] $13ofJanuary2007 = [DateTime]"1.13.07 12:30"

Get relative timestamp

[DateTime] $lastMidnight = [DateTime]::Now - [DateTime]::Now.TimeOfDay
[DateTime] $yesterday = [DateTime]::Now.AddDays(-1)
[DateTime] $firstThisMonth = Get-Date -Date $lastMidnight -Day 1

Formatted timestamps

Import Unix Milliseconds timestamp

[DateTime] $importUnixMillis = 1673978762521 | foreach {
    [DateTimeOffset]::FromUnixTimeSeconds($_).DateTime
}

Import Unix Seconds timestamp

[DateTime] $importUnixSeconds = 1674064339 | foreach {
    [DateTimeOffset]::FromUnixTimeSeconds($_).DateTime
}

Import timestamp using current culture

[DateTime] $date = "13.04.2022" | foreach { 
    [DateTime]::Parse($_, [CultureInfo]::CurrentCulture)
}

Import timestamp using a specific culture

$germanCulture = [cultureinfo]::GetCultureInfo('de-DE')
[DateTime] $date = "13.04.2022" | foreach { 
    [DateTime]::Parse($_, $germanCulture)
}

Import timestamp using a specific format

$dateFormat = "yyyyMMdd"
[DateTime] $date = "20220413" | foreach {
    [DateTime]::ParseExact($_, $dateFormat, [CultureInfo]::InvariantCulture)
}

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PowerShell Objects - Handle, Import, Export, Filter and RegEx query objects

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