{"id":73191,"date":"2015-09-22T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/09\/22\/powertip-find-number-of-hours-in-number-of-days\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:09","slug":"powertip-find-number-of-hours-in-number-of-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-number-of-hours-in-number-of-days\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Number of Hours in Number of Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to find the number of hours in a number of days.<\/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 figure out how many hours are in 30 days without <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;doing any multiplication?<\/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;to create a timespan object for 30 days. The output will tell the number of hours, <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;minutes, and seconds in the timespan. Here is an example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">New-TimeSpan -Days 30<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\">To return only the number of hours, retrieve the&nbsp;<b>TotalHours<\/b>&nbsp;property:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">PS C:\\&gt; (New-TimeSpan -Days 30).totalhours<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">720<\/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 the number of hours in a number of days. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily figure out how many hours are in 30 days without &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;doing any multiplication? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;New-TimeSpan&nbsp;to create a timespan object for 30 days. The output will tell the number [&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-73191","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 the number of hours in a number of days. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily figure out how many hours are in 30 days without &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;doing any multiplication? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;New-TimeSpan&nbsp;to create a timespan object for 30 days. The output will tell the number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73191","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=73191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73191\/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=73191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}