The number of days between two dates has been covered before so we’ll keep this one quick.
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Listing 2.16
$test = [datetime]"10/10/2008"
$span = $test – $(Get-Date)
"Days until 10 October = $($span.days)"
Create a test date and then subtract today’s date from it to create a timespan object. Display the number of days. Check out the other properties of timespan with get-member