Creating a DateTime object with a specific UTC DateTime in PowerShell

Question

I\'m trying to create a DateTime object with a specific UTC timestamp in PowerShell. What\'s the simplest way to do this?

I tried:

Get-Date
         


        

Answer 1

You can use the SpecifyKind method:

PS C:\IT\s3> $timestamp

Wednesday, July 18, 2018 7:57:14 PM

PS C:\IT\s3> $timestamp.kind

Unspecified

PS C:\IT\s3> $utctimestamp = [DateTime]::SpecifyKind($timestamp,[DateTimeKind]::Utc)

PS C:\IT\s3> $utctimestamp

Wednesday, July 18, 2018 7:57:14 PM

PS C:\IT\s3> $utctimestamp.kind

Utc