PowerTip: Displaying Only the Current Year in PowerShell

"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble"

It's witchcraft...

More magic from everybodies favorite mad scientist.

@jrv: Magic Ed Wilson @ work ...

The wizard of South Carolina :-)

As Teresa told me, "Date and time voodoo" is one of his hobbies

besides diving, wood working and (underwater) photography

Klaus.

Hi

for fun:

PS> ( date ).ToString('yyyy')

PS> [datetime]::Today.Year

PS> (Get-WmiObject Win32_LocalTime).Year

PS>

@Walid - I'll see you and raise you one:

(date).Year

@JRV hehehe

@K_Schulte thanks ...

@Walid Toumi these are great ... thanks for sharing.

@JRV cool. Thanks.

@JRV @Walid Toumi can you explain WHY Date works? It is not a cmdlets, nor it is a function or an alias!

@IamMred

all cmdlet with verb "get" works

childitem

item

service

only get-process and get-command don't work

because proccess is a special keyword "help keyword"

and command is old shell win command.com

sorry for my english

@Walid - good explanation and your english is fine.

I learned somthing here today.  Thank you Walid and Ed.

What you have pointed out is this:

PS>function get-year{date -uf %Y}

PS>year

2012

And remember that these might give a different result to

[DateTime]::UtuNow.Year

@all one of the great things about PowerShell is that is simplifies working with dates. In other languages I have used, datetime manipulation was always a major pain. I still remember old databases that had one column for month, another column for day, and another column for year. UGH!!!