While playing round with the dates for the previous post I made an odd discovery.
PS> Get-Date
27 August 2008 22:09:50
PS> $now = Get-Date
PS> $now
27 August 2008 22:09:59
PS> "Now: $($now)"
Now: 08/27/2008 22:09:59
PS>
PS> "Now: $(get-date)"
Now: 08/27/2008 22:10:37
Notice how the date and time are displayed in get-date and when setting it to a variable. If I now try to substitute that into a string notice how it changes.
To get it to display the way I want I need to specifically format the date and time
PS> "Now: $(get-date -format F)"
Now: 27 August 2008 22:18:10
$now = get-date -format F
PS> "Now: $($now)"
Now: 27 August 2008 22:18:35
An oddity but one I’d not seen before and something to be aware of.
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