Function to test a date against different conditions

Several weeks ago, my friend Rich Mawdsley asked our Windows Admins Slack team, how to tell if today is the second Tuesday in the month? As we found out, there is no built-in way in PowerShell to determine that. That’s why I present you today a function built specifically to test dates against different conditions. The function can tell you:

  • If the date is a certain weekday in a month. 4th Monday, Second Thursday, last Sunday etc.
  • If the date belongs to a certain quarter of a year.
  • If the date is a start or an end of a quarter.
  • If the date is the last day of a month etc.

Mind, that the output is boolean: the function will not tell you much about the date object, but only does it meet conditions or does it not. It returns $true if the date meets the conditions and $false in all other cases.

Here’s the code of the function, and, of course, you can always find the latest version at my GitHub:

The function covered with tests (you can see the results here), but not completely — I shall certainly improve this in the future. And yes, those tests have already helped me to fix several bugs before the official release 😉

BTW, If you haven’t written tests for your PowerShell code, I found this Introduction to testing with Pester by Jakub Jares very useful — you will start writing tests in Pester before the end of the lecture.

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