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erma86
erma86

Reputation: 75

PowerShell command output convert to date and time

How would one convert a PowerShell command output that retrieves some date/time like to a readable date/time string? The command is

((Get-ComputerRestorePoint)[-1]).CreationTime

Which basically retrieves the last restore point created date and time, but in a weird format like 20190109100614.556883-000

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1434

Answers (2)

Lee_Dailey
Lee_Dailey

Reputation: 7479

the reason your previous try failed is that you went at it logically instead of doing it the WMI timestamp way. [grin] this works ... 

#requires -RunAsAdministrator

$RPCreationTime = (Get-ComputerRestorePoint)[-1]
$RPCreationTime = $RPCreationTime.ConvertToDateTime($RPCreationTime.CreationTime)

# the Out-Host is needed to avoid the display system trying to combine the two items
$RPCreationTime.GetType() | Out-Host
$RPCreationTime

output ... 

IsPublic IsSerial Name                                     BaseType
-------- -------- ----                                     --------
True     True     DateTime                                 System.ValueType


2019 January 09, Wednesday 3:00:13 AM

Upvotes: 2

vonPryz
vonPryz

Reputation: 24071

The conversion can be done via RestorePoint object. Like so,

$rp=((Get-ComputerRestorePoint)[-1])
$rp.ConvertToDateTime($rp.CreationTime).ToString("u")

# Result
2019-01-08 08:24:24Z

The u format is universal sortable sepcifier, there are quite a few alternatives too.

Upvotes: 2

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