All Those Years Ago

[Joe Caverly]

Demonstration of how to get date properties using PowerShell, based on the date x years ago, or x years from now.

@setlocal
@echo off
function AddYears=`%@pshell[$d = Get-Date; $d.AddYears(%1)]`
function AddYears.DayOfWeek=`%@pshell[$d = Get-Date; $d.AddYears(%1).DayOfWeek]`
function AddYears.ToShortDate=`%@pshell[$d = Get-Date; $d.AddYears(%1).ToShortDateString()]`
function AddYears.ToLongDate=`%@pshell[$d = Get-Date; $d.AddYears(%1).ToLongDateString()]`
function AddYears.Day=`%@pshell[$d = Get-Date; $d.AddYears(%1).Day]`
function AddYears.Month=`%@pshell[$d = Get-Date; $d.AddYears(%1).Month]`
function AddYears.DayOfYear=`%@pshell[$d = Get-Date; $d.AddYears(%1).DayOfYear]`

set theNumber=-72
ver
echo.
echo Todays date is %@AddYears[0]
echo.
echo %((%theNumber*-1)) years ago, the date was %@AddYears[%theNumber]
echo.
echo The short date was %@AddYears.ToShortDate[%theNumber]
echo.
echo The long date was %@AddYears.ToLongDate[%theNumber]
echo.
echo The day of the week was %@AddYears.DayOfWeek[%theNumber]
echo.
echo The day was %@AddYears.Day[%theNumber]
echo.
echo The month was %@AddYears.Month[%theNumber]
echo.
echo The Day of the year was %@AddYears.DayOfYear[%theNumber]
endlocal
quit

TCC  22.00.38 x64   Windows 7 [Version 6.1.7601]

Todays date is 
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 6:06:57 AM

72 years ago, the date was 
Thursday, February 14, 1946 6:06:57 AM

The short date was 2/14/1946

The long date was Thursday, February 14, 1946

The day of the week was Thursday

The day was 14

The month was 2

The Day of the year was 45

Additional References:
Get-Date
Date and Time formats


Joe

 

[AnrDaemon]

All that for

$ date --date="5 years ago" +%F
2013-02-15

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