{"id":72951,"date":"2015-10-04T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/10\/04\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-system-uptime\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:01","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-system-uptime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-system-uptime\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find System Uptime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to find your system uptime.<\/span><\/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 easily find how long my computer has been running?<\/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 the&nbsp;<b>Get-Date<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to return the current date and time, and then subtract the value <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;of the&nbsp;<b>LastBootUpTime<\/b>&nbsp;property that comes from the Win32_OperatingSystem, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">(get-date) &#8211; (gcim Win32_OperatingSystem).LastBootUpTime<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>GCIM<\/b>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<b>Get-CimInstance<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find your system uptime. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily find how long my computer has been running? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Date&nbsp;cmdlet to return the current date and time, and then subtract the value &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;of the&nbsp;LastBootUpTime&nbsp;property that comes from the Win32_OperatingSystem, for example: (get-date) &#8211; [&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-72951","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 find your system uptime. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily find how long my computer has been running? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Date&nbsp;cmdlet to return the current date and time, and then subtract the value &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;of the&nbsp;LastBootUpTime&nbsp;property that comes from the Win32_OperatingSystem, for example: (get-date) &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72951","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=72951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72951\/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=72951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}