convert date to unix timestamp in powershell [duplicate]

Question

I want to convert any date time (not current) format into unix timestamp. $dateToConvert = "2018-12-11 01:00:00"

input: $dateToConvert output: 1544490000 (value that i got from converter)

will be really thankful for help!

Drew · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-02 03:04:35Z

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You would need to convert the $dateToConvert to a [DateTime] object before messing with it in PowerShell. You can then change the format of it to seconds by using the -UFormat parameter.

[datetime]$dateToConvert  = "2018-12-11 01:00:00"
Get-Date -Date $dateToConvert  -UFormat %s

More information regarding changing the format of the Get-Date can be found on the MSDocs Site

EDIT:

As per comment, you can just do the below for the same result.

Get-Date -Date "2018-12-11 01:00:00" -UFormat %s

edited Jul 2, 2019 at 3:04

answered Jul 1, 2019 at 23:22

Drew

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mklement0 Over a year ago

+1 for the -UFormat hint, but note that you can pass the date/time string directly to Get-Date, which implicitly converts it to [datetime] (using the rules of the invariant culture, as with the cast).

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