{"id":4719,"date":"2012-11-05T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/11\/05\/powertip-use-powershell-to-show-how-many-days-until-the-end-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-show-how-many-days-until-the-end-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-show-how-many-days-until-the-end-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Show How Many Days Until the End of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp;Learn how to use the&nbsp;<strong>New-TimeSpan<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet to see the number of days until the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong><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;<\/strong>How can I use Windows PowerShell to see the number of days until the end of the year?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<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. Use&nbsp;<strong>Get-Date<\/strong>&nbsp;for the&nbsp;<strong>start<\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>and the day you wish for the&nbsp;end<em>.&nbsp;<\/em>The following shows this technique by using a U.S. English cultural setting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;New-TimeSpan -Start (get-date) -End 12\/31\/2012<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<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:&nbsp;Learn how to use the&nbsp;New-TimeSpan&nbsp;cmdlet to see the number of days until the end of the year. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to see the number of days until the end of the year? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;New-TimeSpan&nbsp;cmdlet. Use&nbsp;Get-Date&nbsp;for the&nbsp;start&nbsp;and the day you wish for [&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-4719","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:&nbsp;Learn how to use the&nbsp;New-TimeSpan&nbsp;cmdlet to see the number of days until the end of the year. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to see the number of days until the end of the year? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;New-TimeSpan&nbsp;cmdlet. Use&nbsp;Get-Date&nbsp;for the&nbsp;start&nbsp;and the day you wish for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719","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=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/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=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}