{"id":843,"date":"2014-08-08T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/08\/08\/powertip-find-how-many-days-are-in-a-month\/"},"modified":"2014-08-08T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-how-many-days-are-in-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-how-many-days-are-in-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find How Many Days Are in a Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Figure out how many days are in a month by using Windows PowerShell.<\/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 find how many days are in a particular month?<\/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>DaysInMonth<\/b><i>&nbsp;<\/i>static method from the&nbsp;<b>System.DateTime<\/b>&nbsp;object. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; It expects the year and then the month as arguments. Here are a couple examples:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Days in October 2014:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:150px\">[datetime]::DaysInMonth(14,10)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Days in February 2015:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:150px\">[datetime]::DaysInMonth(2015,2)<\/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: Figure out how many days are in a month by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find how many days are in a particular month? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;DaysInMonth&nbsp;static method from the&nbsp;System.DateTime&nbsp;object. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; It expects the year and then the month as arguments. Here are a couple [&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-843","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: Figure out how many days are in a month by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find how many days are in a particular month? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;DaysInMonth&nbsp;static method from the&nbsp;System.DateTime&nbsp;object. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; It expects the year and then the month as arguments. Here are a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/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=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}