Description
Produce one-line output in Format-Custom for DateTime by default
Dates and times get really spammy in Format-Custom
This simple object with a datetime
[pscustomobject]@{Time = [datetime]::now} | format-customproduces 148 lines of output!
class PSCustomObject
{
Time =
class DateTime
{
Date =
class DateTime
{
Date =
class DateTime
{
Date =
class DateTime
{
Date =
class DateTime
{
Date = 2022-09-21 00:00:00
Day = 21
DayOfWeek = Wednesday
DayOfYear = 264
Hour = 0
Kind = Local
Millisecond = 0
Minute = 0
Month = 9
Second = 0
Ticks = 637993152000000000
TimeOfDay = 00:00:00
Year = 2022
DateTime = den 21 september 2022 00:00:00
}
Day = 21
DayOfWeek = Wednesday
DayOfYear = 264
Hour = 0
Kind = Local
Millisecond = 0
Minute = 0
Month = 9
Second = 0
Ticks = 637993152000000000
TimeOfDay =
class TimeSpan
{
Ticks = 0
Days = 0
Hours = 0
Milliseconds = 0
Minutes = 0
Seconds = 0
TotalDays = 0
TotalHours = 0
TotalMilliseconds = 0
TotalMinutes = 0
TotalSeconds = 0
}
Year = 2022
DateTime = den 21 september 2022 00:00:00
}
Day = 21
DayOfWeek = Wednesday
DayOfYear = 264
Hour = 0
Kind = Local
Millisecond = 0
Minute = 0
Month = 9
Second = 0
Ticks = 637993152000000000
TimeOfDay =
class TimeSpan
{
Ticks = 0
Days = 0
Hours = 0
Milliseconds = 0
Minutes = 0
Seconds = 0
TotalDays = 0
TotalHours = 0
TotalMilliseconds = 0
TotalMinutes = 0
TotalSeconds = 0
}
Year = 2022
DateTime = den 21 september 2022 00:00:00
}
Day = 21
DayOfWeek = Wednesday
DayOfYear = 264
Hour = 0
Kind = Local
Millisecond = 0
Minute = 0
Month = 9
Second = 0
Ticks = 637993152000000000
TimeOfDay =
class TimeSpan
{
Ticks = 0
Days = 0
Hours = 0
Milliseconds = 0
Minutes = 0
Seconds = 0
TotalDays = 0
TotalHours = 0
TotalMilliseconds = 0
TotalMinutes = 0
TotalSeconds = 0
}
Year = 2022
DateTime = den 21 september 2022 00:00:00
}
Day = 21
DayOfWeek = Wednesday
DayOfYear = 264
Hour = 9
Kind = Local
Millisecond = 945
Minute = 36
Month = 9
Second = 31
Ticks = 637993497919455174
TimeOfDay =
class TimeSpan
{
Ticks = 345919455174
Days = 0
Hours = 9
Milliseconds = 945
Minutes = 36
Seconds = 31
TotalDays = 0,400369739784722
TotalHours = 9,60887375483333
TotalMilliseconds = 34591945,5174
TotalMinutes = 576,53242529
TotalSeconds = 34591,9455174
}
Year = 2022
DateTime = den 21 september 2022 09:36:31
}
}
I suggest that we should special-case DateTime in the custom formatted to only print the string same string as we get when we limit the depth:
[pscustomobject]@{Obj = [PSCustomObject]@{Time = [datetime]::now}} | fc -Depth 1class PSCustomObject
{
Obj =
class PSCustomObject
{
Time = 2022-09-21 09:38:35
}
}
So that
[pscustomobject]@{Time = [datetime]::now} | format-customwould output
class PSCustomObject
{
Time = 2022-09-21 09:38:35
}
Maybe use -Force to get the full recursive version?
Proposed technical implementation details (optional)
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