Powershell - Benchmark Command

Submitted by Vadim Berezniker on September 26, 2009 - 22:57 UTC
topic: 
windows
time
powershell
benchmark
measure

Powershell comes with a cmdlet called "Measure-Command" that can execute a block of commands and measure how long it takes to run. It's analogous to the unix "time" command.

What if you want to run something a number of times and take the average?

File date and time

Submitted by Sergey on January 2, 2008 - 00:43 UTC
topic: 
code
vfp
wsh
date
time
file

Code below shows how to retrieve file date and time using native VFP commands or WSH. For Windows API based solution that also allows to set file date and time, see George Tasker's Windows Time hosted on UT

MSDN links:

Converting duration in seconds to time format

Submitted by Sergey on January 1, 2008 - 22:35 UTC
topic: 
code
vfp
foxpro
time

Convert Unix time to datetime

Submitted by Sergey on January 1, 2008 - 22:29 UTC
topic: 
code
vfp
foxpro
datetime
time
unix

Unix time

is the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)