>From the end of all my documentation scripts:
#http://poshtips.com/measuring-elapsed-time-in-powershell/ Write-Verbose "$(Get-Date): Script started: $($Script:StartTime)" Write-Verbose "$(Get-Date): Script ended: $(Get-Date)" $runtime = $(Get-Date) - $Script:StartTime $Str = [string]::format("{0} days, {1} hours, {2} minutes, {3}.{4} seconds", ` $runtime.Days, ` $runtime.Hours, ` $runtime.Minutes, ` $runtime.Seconds, $runtime.Milliseconds) Write-Verbose "$(Get-Date): Elapsed time: $($Str)" Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com<http://www.carlwebster.com/> ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of James Rankin <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 7:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] PowerShell brain block I'm having a bad day, struggling with basic PowerShell functionality, help :( I'm trying to use the following command to return the difference between two times New-TimeSpan -Start $StartDate -End $EndDate Which works fine, but it returns a bunch of stuff like Days : 0 Hours : 0 Minutes : 0 Seconds : 25 Milliseconds : 464 Ticks : 254647496 TotalDays : 0.000294730898148148 TotalHours : 0.00707354155555556 TotalMinutes : 0.424412493333333 TotalSeconds : 25.4647496 TotalMilliseconds : 25464.7496 I just want to get it to return something like 0 Hours, 0 Minutes, 25 seconds ...but I'm having a total mental block and I appear to have lost the ability to do simple manipulation of PowerShell output, all I am managing after quite some time is a single line from (New-TimeSpan -Start $StartDate -End $EndDate).TotalSeconds Which just gives me "25" can someone put me out of my misery? Cheers, James Rankin EUC Director | HTG TaloSys | 07809 668579 | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> One Trinity Green, Eldon Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE33 1SA Tel: 0191 481 3489 Email address: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Website: www.talosys.co.uk<http://www.talosys.co.uk> [phpy9YoGNAM]
