If you need to parse a date or time information out of raw text, and if the date and time format does not adhere to the standards of your operating system, then you can use a template and define the date and time pattern yourself. Have a look
#requires -Version 1 Get-Date -Format 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss fffff' $date = '1990 --03-- 29' $pattern = 'yyyy --MM-- dd' [DateTime]::ParseExact($date, $pattern, $null)
The pattern uses the default .NET placeholders for date and time (which are case sensitive). You can see the most frequently used placeholders in the initial Get-Date statement.
$date contains the date information we are after. $pattern describes the date pattern used in that string. ParseExact() does the heavy lifting and returns a DateTime object.
