{"id":4018,"date":"2013-03-15T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/03\/15\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-the-number-of-seconds-in-three-days\/"},"modified":"2013-03-15T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-the-number-of-seconds-in-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-the-number-of-seconds-in-three-days\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find the Number of Seconds in Three Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to easily find the number of seconds in three days.<\/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;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find how many seconds are in three days without diving into a bunch of multiplication or division?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><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 the&nbsp;<strong>New-TimeSpan<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet to create a time span of three days, and select the&nbsp;<strong>TotalSeconds<\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>property:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">PS C:\\&gt; (New-TimeSpan -Days 3).totalseconds<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">259200&nbsp;<\/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 Windows PowerShell to easily find the number of seconds in three days. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find how many seconds are in three days without diving into a bunch of multiplication or division? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;New-TimeSpan&nbsp;cmdlet to create a time span of three days, and select the&nbsp;TotalSeconds&nbsp;property: PS C:\\&gt; (New-TimeSpan -Days [&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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to easily find the number of seconds in three days. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find how many seconds are in three days without diving into a bunch of multiplication or division? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;New-TimeSpan&nbsp;cmdlet to create a time span of three days, and select the&nbsp;TotalSeconds&nbsp;property: PS C:\\&gt; (New-TimeSpan -Days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018","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=4018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/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=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}