Uptime formating

[murray]

Hi, I've figured out how to get uptime in seconds but since it's kind of hard to figure out how long the system has been up over 600sec i would like to format it some.

The commandline i used is:

Get-WmiObject -class Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_System | Out-Gauge -value {$_.systemuptime/60/60/24} -type digital -refresh 0:0:1 -valueformat "##"

 

That's a line for date, but i would like to add more... like YY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS or something like that.. but i just can't figure out a way to do it.

Thanks! 

[marco.shaw]

You might be able to combine some of these, but you'll want to put all of these commands in a ps1 script, and pipe it to out-gauge:

$time=Get-WmiObject -class Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_System|%{$_.systemuptime}[datetime]::now.addseconds(-$time).tostring("yy-MM-dd HH:MM:ss")

(I don't get why you'd want to do a refresh when the start time isn't actually going to change.)

The last line above uses .NET to format.  The 2 lines above could be combined into one, but I find the above easier to read.

[murray]

Yes, I just solved it with a simular script. I searched the forum for some help and stumbled over (i think it was you) someones reply that you can't refresh a function but a script. Although i didn't do my script with a [datetime]-string... just echoed a normal string and presented it in out-gauge..

 But i think I'm going to use you're code since my code do only count 30 days a month and 12*30 days a year.

 

*EDIT* Just tested your lines and realized that thouse would show the uptime . What we need to do is extract the current time and subtract the bootuptime! I'll be back with an edit in a few minutes! *EDIT*

 

 

Thank you alot! 

[SAPIENScripter]

Boy was this harder than I thought it was going to be.  If I understood, you wanted something to display the uptime in a format like DD:HH:MM:SS.

Well I made my first gadget to display that information. I've attached the pgf file.

Jeffery Hicks

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[SAPIENScripter]

I updated my script to create objects.  Now when run in PowerShell it gives pretty good information.

#Get-Uptime.ps1 

[int]$secup=(Get-WmiObject -class Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_System).SystemUptime[int]$days=([system.math]::Truncate($secup/86400))[int]$Hours=($secup/3600)%24[int]$Mins=($secup/60)%60[int]$secs=$secup%60#create new object to hold values$obj = New-Object System.ObjectAdd-Member -inputobject $obj -membertype NoteProperty -Name Days -value $daysAdd-Member -inputobject $obj -membertype NoteProperty -Name Hours -value $HoursAdd-Member -inputobject $obj -membertype NoteProperty -Name Minutes -value $MinsAdd-Member -inputobject $obj -membertype NoteProperty -Name Seconds -value $secsWrite-Output $obj

 What I'm not having luck doing is passing it to Out-gauge so that the format is DD:HH:MM:SS.

 Jeffery HicksSAPIEN Technologies - Scripting, Simplified. www.SAPIEN.comVBScript & Windows PowerShell Training - www.ScriptingTraining.com/classes.aspWindows PowerShell? - www.SAPIENPress.com/powershell.aspblog: http://blog.SAPIEN.comblog: http://jdhitsolutions.blogspot.com

 

[murray]

Found the solution to MY problem ..

 

You got it right, i wanted the uptime..

This is how i did it;

 $time=Get-WmiObject -class Win32_OperatingSystem$t=$time.ConvertToDateTime($time.Lastbootuptime)[TimeSpan]$uptime=New-TimeSpan $t $(get-date)"$($uptime.days)d $($uptime.hours)h $($uptime.minutes)m $($uptime.seconds)S" 

 

Saved this to uptime.ps1 and then ran; .\uptime.ps1 | out-gauge -type digital -refresh 0:0:1 -float

 

Works just fine :-) thanks to both of you guys!