Date and time manipulation
DateTime objects may be created in a number of ways. The Get-Date command is one of these. The methods on the DateTime type has a number of static methods that might be used, and an instance of DateTime has methods that might be used.
DateTime parameters
While most commands deal with dates in a culture-specific format, care must be taken when passing dates (as strings) to parameters that cast to DateTime.
Casting to DateTime does not account for a cultural bias. For example, in the UK the format dd/MM/yyyy is often used. Casting this format to DateTime will switch the format to MM/dd/yyyy (as used in the US):
$string = "11/10/2000" # 11th October 2000
[DateTime]$string # 10th November 2000If a function is created accepting a DateTime as a parameter, the result may not be as expected:
function Test-DateTime {
param(
[DateTime]$Date
)
$Date
}
Test-DateTime -Date "11/10/2000" It is possible to work around this problem using the Get...
