{"id":8211,"date":"2015-01-23T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/01\/23\/powertip-pipe-string-to-get-date\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:35:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:35:49","slug":"powertip-pipe-string-to-get-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-pipe-string-to-get-date\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Pipe String to Get-Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Pipe a string to the Windows PowerShell&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Get-Date<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;cmdlet to convert it to a&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-size:12px\">DateTime<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;object.<\/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 convert a date that is in a string format to a&nbsp;<b>DateTime<\/b>&nbsp;object?<\/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;Create a pipeline, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">&quot;11\/14\/2015&quot; | get-date&nbsp;<\/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: Pipe a string to the Windows PowerShell&nbsp;Get-Date&nbsp;cmdlet to convert it to a&nbsp;DateTime&nbsp;object. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to convert a date that is in a string format to a&nbsp;DateTime&nbsp;object? &nbsp;Create a pipeline, for example: &quot;11\/14\/2015&quot; | get-date&nbsp;<\/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-8211","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: Pipe a string to the Windows PowerShell&nbsp;Get-Date&nbsp;cmdlet to convert it to a&nbsp;DateTime&nbsp;object. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to convert a date that is in a string format to a&nbsp;DateTime&nbsp;object? &nbsp;Create a pipeline, for example: &quot;11\/14\/2015&quot; | get-date&nbsp;<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211","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=8211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/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=8211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}