Powershell - adding multiple Get-Date commands into variable

Question

So I am trying to get the date 3 months back using the Powershell command Get-Date. However, when I try to add multiple get-dates in one line it errors out or doesn't give me the results I'm looking for.

The End result I'm trying to get is $checkDate = 6-7-2016

I've tried this, but it doesn't really work:

$checkDate = (Get-Date).month -3 "-" (Get-Date).day "-" (Get-Date).year

Any ideas on how to accomplish this? I'm newer to Powershell and not exactly sure how to concatenate properly.

I'm using PS 4.0

TheMadTechnician · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-07 23:59:17Z

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What you are trying to do is format a calculated date. So let's start with calculating the date:

(Get-Date).AddMonths(-3)

That gets you today's date minus 3 months. Next you want to format it in a specific manner. That being Month-Day-Year. That can be done as such:

(Get-Date).AddMonths(-3).ToString("M-d-yyyy")

That results in:

6-7-2016

answered Sep 7, 2016 at 23:59

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