Powershell s Get-date How to get Yesterday at 22 00 in a variable

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For a check i need yesterday s date at 10 00pm in a variable   I get yesterdays Date and current Time with   a    get-date  AddDays -1    But how do i manipulate the time to 22 00 and leave the variable still as Date-Object

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I saw in at least one other place that people don't realize Date-Time takes in times as well, so I figured I'd share it here since it's really short to do so:

Get-Date # Following the OP's example, let's say it's Friday, March 12, 2010 9:00:00 AM
(Get-Date '22:00').AddDays(-1) # Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:00:00 PM

It's also the shortest way to strip time information and still use other parameters of Get-Date. For instance you can get seconds since 1970 this way (Unix timestamp):

Get-Date '0:00' -u '%s' # 1268352000

Or you can get an ISO 8601 timestamp:

Get-Date '0:00' -f 's' # 2010-03-12T00:00:00

Then again if you reverse the operands, it gives you a little more freedom with formatting with any date object:

'The sortable timestamp: {0:s}Z{1}Vs measly human format: {0:D}' -f (Get-Date '0:00'), "`r`n"
# The sortable timestamp: 2010-03-12T00:00:00Z
# Vs measly human format: Friday, March 12, 2010

However if you wanted to both format a Unix timestamp (via -u aka -UFormat), you'll need to do it separately. Here's an example of that:

'ISO 8601: {0:s}Z{1}Unix: {2}' -f (Get-Date '0:00'), "`r`n", (Get-Date '0:00' -u '%s')
# ISO 8601: 2010-03-12T00:00:00Z
# Unix: 1268352000

Hope this helps!

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I see this topic  but in my case I was looking for a way to improve the format  Using UFormat and adding -1 day   get-date  get-date  addDays -1  -UFormat   Y m d- H M

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Use DateTime Today as opposed to DateTime Now  which is what Get-Date returns  because Today is just the date with 00 00 as the time  and now is the moment in time down to the millisecond   from masenkablast    gt   DateTime   Today AddDays -1  AddHours 22  Thursday  March 11  2010 10 00 00 PM

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Format in other syntax is possible in this way   DateTime   Today AddDays -1  ToString  yyyyMMdd

User · Answer

Yet another way to do this    Get-Date  AddDays -1  Date AddHours 22

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Get-Date  Get-Date -Format d   AddHours -2

User · Answer

When I was to get yesterday with just the date in the format Year Month Day I use   Variable   Get-Date  get-date   AddDays -1    -Format  quot yyyy-MM-dd quot

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