Gain insights into Python by leveraging your PowerShell knowledge. Delve into syntax, semantics, and core concepts of Python, making learning efficient through associative learning techniques.

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PowerShell is a go-to scripting language for almost ANYTHING! Now, if you’re hoping to learn Python, then you’re in the right place. As you start this course, you’ll begin to notice that there are a lot of patterns and concepts shared between the two languages. 

Thus during this course, you will easily be able to relate new Python concepts to the concepts you already know in PowerShell, a learning style called Associative Learning. 

This PowerShell Scripting guide to Python is designed to make you familiar with syntax, semantics, and core concepts of the Python language. And by using concepts you already know in PowerShell, you’ll be able to learn Python fast and effectively in a way that sticks with you for a longer period of time.

Learning Python through PowerShell Concepts

# Get date and time

Let’s begin by understanding how to retrieve date and time information.

# `System.DateTime`

Getting date and time in PowerShell is done using the cmdlet `Get-Date` or using the `[datetime]` type accelerator.



### date and time
Get-date
[datetime]::Now | Format-List
[datetime]::Now # local time
[datetime]::UtcNow # time in UTC




Under the hood, both methods call `.net` class' `System.DateTime` to return rich `DateTime` objects. If we dig a little deeper, we'll see that there is no difference at all in the returned objects.

```PowerShell
[datetime].FullName
(Get-Date).GetType().FullName
```

If we pipe the results of the `Get-Date` cmdlet to `Get-Member`, we will find the member properties and methods of the `DateTime` object like `Day`, `Hour`, `Minute`, `Second`, `AddDays()`, and `AddHours()`.
```PowerShell
Get-Date | Get-Member
```

These properties can be utilized to get the current date and time:


## using date time properties

## just date, time defaults to midnight
(Get-Date).Date

## date and time
(Get-Date).DateTime

## time of the day
(Get-Date).TimeOfDay

## other properties
(Get-Date).Day
(Get-Date).Hour
(Get-Date).Minute
(Get-Date).Year





Methods of class `System.DateTime` time objects can be used to perform various date-time operations like adding years, hours, or minutes to the current date.

```PowerShell
## using date time methods
(Get-Date).AddYears(2) # current year + 2
(Get-Date).AddYears(-3) # current year - 3
(Get-Date).AddHours(5) # current hour + 5
(Get-Date).AddHours(-10) # current hour - 10
```
Things on the Python side are also simple but can be a little confusing. Python provides two modules to handle date and time, which can be imported to our session to get date and time objects.

1. `time` module
2. `datetime` module




Learn about date and time in Python and Powershell.

Introduction

Basics

Object Introspection

Data Types and Its Manipulation

Data Structures

Conditional Statements

Loops

Functions

Handling Json, Xml, and Csv

Error Handling and Builtin Functions

Builtin Functions

Appendix

Conclusion

Date and Time

Get date and time

`System.DateTime`