That's what I thought to but as soon as you apply formatting the object seems to get converted to a string and you can no longer perform calculations. Also turns out New-TimeSpan has no built-in formatting capability.
Mitch provided the simple solution of just using .net methods which work treat. :) i.e. $duration = $end.Subtract($start) Regards, Paul -- Online Developer/SharePoint Administrator, ICT Infrastructure Team CEO Sydney From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Prashanth Thiyagalingam Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2012 3:17 PM To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subject: RE: PowerShell date calculations you could use Get-Date -Format "hh:mm:ss" ________________________________ From: paul.no...@ceosyd.catholic.edu.au To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:10:05 +1100 Subject: PowerShell date calculations I've managed to produce what I want below but have first had to convert the Get-Date objects to datetime. Is there a more straightforward way? I tried the New-TimeSpan cmdlet but couldn't see a way to just extract what I needed -TotalSeconds - and then reformat it. # Backup the site and calculate time taken $start = Get-Date $startNow = [system.datetime]$start $startTime = $start.ToString('hh:mm:ss') Backup-SPSite -Identity $site.Url -Path $backupPath $end = Get-Date $endNow = [system.datetime]$end $endTime = $start.ToString('hh:mm:ss') $duration = ($endNow - $startNow) Start 12:56:26 $startTime End 12:56:27 $endTime Duration 00:00:00.5937538 $duration Kind regards, Paul Noone --------------------------------------------------- Online Developer/SharePoint Administrator Infrastructure Team, ICT Catholic Education Office, Sydney p: (02) 9568 8461 f: (02) 9568 8483 e: paul.no...@ceosyd.catholic.edu.au<mailto:paul.no...@ceosyd.catholic.edu.au> w: http://www.ceosyd.catholic.edu.au/ _______________________________________________ ozmoss mailing list ozmoss@ozmoss.com<mailto:ozmoss@ozmoss.com> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss
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