Date and Time
Published October 12, 2009I recently came across a script that used date and time information in this manner
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$stuff = "Stuff"
$monthday = Get-Date -Format "ddMMM" $year = Get-Date -Format yyyy $time = Get-Date -Format "HH:mm:ss" $data = "$monthday" + "," + "$year" + "," + "$time" + "," + "$stuff" $data |
This gives a result of
12Oct,2009,15:20:32,Stuff
I didn’t like the way get-date was used three times – its messy . In most cases it won’t make much difference but if the script runs across a day boundary you just might get some odd results.
The same results can be achieved with
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$stuff = "Stuff"
$date = Get-Date $data = "{0:dd}{1:MMM},{2:yyyy},{3:HH}:{4:mm}:{5:ss},$stuff" -f $date, $date, $date, $date, $date, $date $data |
which will give a result of
12Oct,2009,15:20:38,Stuff
The time differences are related to me clicking across different tabs in ISE
In this way we only call Get-date once and use the .NET string formatting to give the results we want. Much neater and we don’t need to worry about time or date boundaries
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