Creating Relative Dates

by Jun 11, 2010

To create relative dates like "10 days ago," there are two paths. Administrators often add or remove time spans created by New-Timespan:

(Get-Date) (New-TimeSpan -days 10)

Developers prefer object methods:

(Get-Date).AddDays(10)

Both approaches will yield you the same result.

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