Bug with Powershell Get-Date
Apr 1, 2015
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5 years ago today, I sent the following bug report to the Powershell team.
From: Lincoln Atkinson
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:33 PM
To: PowerShell Discussions
Subject: Problem with get-date
Hey experts, maybe you can help me with this issue.
Get-Date seems totally broken for me. I've tried it multiple times with all different parameters, but it's just not working in my environment. I'm still single and I haven't gotten a date in months :-(
Get-Help really wasn't useful this time. Funny, since many of the ladies I wanted to Get-Date with specifically suggested I “get-help.” A few told me to try “get-life” and “get-bent,” as well, but I couldn't find those cmdlets. They must be running some V3 beta.
I've debugged this a bit, and have eliminated some possibilities:
Localization – I live in Seattle, seems there should be a pretty good social scene there.
Build – I'm average height/weight, don't see this as holding me back.
Concurrency – In our modern era of tolerance I'd like to think this isn't a race condition.
Hardware – Not the issue.
Low Resources – Get-Job worked ok for me so I have at least a little money saved.
Any thoughts? I just want to allocate some memories with someone and maybe attend a few advanced functions.
-Lincoln
The report was forwarded to the Powershell MVPs, who weighed in with reasoned opinions and sage advice.
Tibor Soós – And if there is a parent object, he should also use the –confirm switch.
Hal Rottenberg – I do NOT recommend concurrent job scenarios with this cmdlet. I have heard of it being done, but it never ends well.
Hal Rottenberg – I just hope he didn’t try the Force parameter. That one has some illegal page fault regression bugs in v2.
Susan Bradley – Not to mention you really want to run with antivirus or have some protection in this scenario.
Oisín Grehan – His deduction on localization might be flawed: Get-Date typically only works at places where Get-Culture returns a non-null value. [ouch!]
Tobias Weltner – You also want to make sure not to use the undocumented –recurse switch which leads to unexpected results.