{"id":2330,"date":"2013-12-28T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/12\/28\/powertip-get-time-difference-between-dates-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-12-28T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-get-time-difference-between-dates-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-get-time-difference-between-dates-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Get Time Difference between Dates with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use&nbsp;<b>New-TimeSpan<\/b>&nbsp;to produce the time difference between two dates.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;I know I can subtract dates, but is there a Windows PoweShell cmdlet to show me the time difference between dates?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use&nbsp;<b>New-TimeSpan<\/b>&nbsp;and supply the information!<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; For example, to show the difference between today and the upcoming New Year:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$StartDate=(GET-DATE)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$EndDate=[datetime]&rdquo;01\/01\/2014 00:00&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">NEW-TIMESPAN &ndash;Start $StartDate &ndash;End $EndDate<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use&nbsp;New-TimeSpan&nbsp;to produce the time difference between two dates. &nbsp;I know I can subtract dates, but is there a Windows PoweShell cmdlet to show me the time difference between dates? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;New-TimeSpan&nbsp;and supply the information!&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; For example, to show the difference between today and the upcoming New Year: $StartDate=(GET-DATE) $EndDate=[datetime]&rdquo;01\/01\/2014 00:00&rdquo; NEW-TIMESPAN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use&nbsp;New-TimeSpan&nbsp;to produce the time difference between two dates. &nbsp;I know I can subtract dates, but is there a Windows PoweShell cmdlet to show me the time difference between dates? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;New-TimeSpan&nbsp;and supply the information!&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; For example, to show the difference between today and the upcoming New Year: $StartDate=(GET-DATE) $EndDate=[datetime]&rdquo;01\/01\/2014 00:00&rdquo; NEW-TIMESPAN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}