Update to my Navy Date Time Group Generator using SAPIEN PowerShell Studio

Good morning from Japan. I’ve been in Japan for the last week and a half doing my duty as a Navy Reservist. I am very much looking forward to heading home very soon. Today I found a chance to introduce another fellow IT here in the Navy to PowerShell. You could see the hamster wheel in his head turning fast. During some training, I discovered that I am not the only one who mixes up the numbers for a Navy Date Time Group (DTG). Well, I decided to make an update to my original code.

I decided to pull out Sapien PowerShell Studio. I needed to make this easy to use and since not all potential users are PowerShell experts, I put the code into a GUI. Looking at the code below, I did nothing to the original code except to add 2 spaces in the output to make the string correct by Navy standards. Here is what the finished product looks like.

The concept is the same. This is just a live updating version. If you need the current DTG on the clipboard, just click Send to Clipboard.

Now for the fun part, here is the code. I am posting the code in its entirety so it can be pasted into the Shell and executed from there if necessary.

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#------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Source File Information (DO NOT MODIFY)

# Source ID: 9c32e0ca-a84b-4920-be22-903aacc132a3

# Source File: E:\PowerShell\InDev\NavyDTG\NavyDTG.psf

#------------------------------------------------------------------------

.NOTES

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Code generated by: SAPIEN Technologies, Inc., PowerShell Studio 2015 v4.2.86

Generated on: 7/21/2015 3:26 AM

Generated by:

Organization:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

.DESCRIPTION

GUI script generated by PowerShell Studio 2015

#----------------------------------------------

#region Application Functions

#----------------------------------------------

#endregion Application Functions

#----------------------------------------------

# Generated Form Function

#----------------------------------------------

function Call-NavyDTG_psf {

#----------------------------------------------

#region Import the Assemblies

#----------------------------------------------

[void][reflection.assembly]::Load('mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089')

[void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089')

[void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089')

[void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System.Data, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089')

[void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System.Drawing, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a')

[void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System.Xml, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089')

[void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System.DirectoryServices, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a')

[void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089')

[void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System.ServiceProcess, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a')

#endregion Import Assemblies

#----------------------------------------------

#region Generated Form Objects

#----------------------------------------------

[System.Windows.Forms.Application]::EnableVisualStyles()

$formNavyDTG = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.Form'

$buttonExit = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.Button'

$button_Clip = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.Button'

$label1 = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.Label'

$timer1 = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.Timer'

$InitialFormWindowState = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState'

#endregion Generated Form Objects

#----------------------------------------------

# User Generated Script

#----------------------------------------------

Function Get-NAVYDTG

{

[CmdletBinding()]

Param ([Switch]$NoClip,

[Switch]$PassThru

)

$Date = (Get-Date).ToUniversalTime()

# Day Component

Switch ($Date.day.ToString().length)

{

1 { $Day = "0$($Date.Day)"; BREAK }

Default { $Day = "$($Date.Day)" }

}

# Hour Component

Switch ($Date.Hour.ToString().length)

{

1 { $Hour = "0$($Date.Hour)"; BREAK }

Default { $Hour = "$($Date.Hour)" }

}

# Minute Component

Switch ($Date.Minute.ToString().length)

{

1 { $Minute = "0$($Date.Minute)"; BREAK }

Default { $Minute = "$($Date.Minute)" }

}

# Month Component

$Month = ((((get-date).

GetDateTimeFormats())[6]).

remove("0", "3")).

Remove(3).

ToUpper()

# Year Component

$Year = ((get-date).Year.toString().Remove("0", "2"))

If ((!$NoClip) -and (!$PassThru)

)

{

Write-Output "$($Day)$($Hour)$($Minute)Z $($Month) $($Year)" |

Clip

Write-Host "$($Day)$($Hour)$($Minute)Z $($Month) $($Year)"

Write-Host "Sent to Clipboard"

}

ELSEIF ($PassThru)

{

$Date |

Select-Object -Property *,

@{ Name = "DTG"; Expression = { "$($Day)$($Hour)$($Minute)Z $($Month) $($Year)" } } |

Write-Output

}

Else

{

Write-Output "$($Day)$($Hour)$($Minute)Z $($Month) $($Year)"

}

.SYNOPSIS

Returns a Navy Date Time Group (DTG)

.DESCRIPTION

Returns a Navy Date Group Group (DTG) and copies it to the clipboard.

.PARAMETER NoClip

Prevents the DTG value from being sent to the clipboard and only

displayed on the screen.

.PARAMETER PassThru

Suppresses all screen output and passes a full Systsem.DateTime object

to the pipeline with the DTG property added.

.EXAMPLE

Get-NAVYDTG

040219ZAUG13

Sent to Clipboard

Displays the DTG and sends it to the clipboard

.EXAMPLE

Get-NAVYDTG -NoClip

040220ZAUG13

Displays the DTG, but dose not copy it to the clipboard.

.EXAMPLE

Get-NAVYDTG -PassThru

DateTime : Sunday, May 05, 2013 7:42:17 PM

Date : 5/5/2013 12:00:00 AM

Day : 5

DayOfWeek : Sunday

DayOfYear : 125

Hour : 19

Kind : Utc

Millisecond : 446

Minute : 42

Month : 5

Second : 17

Ticks : 635033797374465212

TimeOfDay : 19:42:17.4465212

Year : 2013

DTG : 051942ZAUG13

Passes a System.DateTime object to the pipeline with the DTG

property added.

} # End Function Get-NAVYDTG

$formNavyDTG_Load={

# get the intial DTG

$label1.Text = Get-NAVYDTG -NoClip

# Start the 15 second timer.

$timer1.Interval = 15000

$timer1.Start()

}

$buttonExit_Click={

# Close the form.

$FormNavyDTG.Close()

}

$timer1_Tick={

# Update the DTG every 15 seconds.

$label1.Text = Get-NAVYDTG -NoClip

}

$button_Clip_Click={

# Send the DTG to the clipboard.

Get-NAVYDTG

}

# --End User Generated Script--

#----------------------------------------------

#region Generated Events

#----------------------------------------------

$Form_StateCorrection_Load=

{

#Correct the initial state of the form to prevent the .Net maximized form issue

$formNavyDTG.WindowState = $InitialFormWindowState

}

$Form_Cleanup_FormClosed=

{

#Remove all event handlers from the controls

try

{

$buttonExit.remove_Click($buttonExit_Click)

$button_Clip.remove_Click($button_Clip_Click)

$formNavyDTG.remove_Load($formNavyDTG_Load)

$timer1.remove_Tick($timer1_Tick)

$formNavyDTG.remove_Load($Form_StateCorrection_Load)

$formNavyDTG.remove_FormClosed($Form_Cleanup_FormClosed)

}

catch [Exception]

{ }

}

#endregion Generated Events

#----------------------------------------------

#region Generated Form Code

#----------------------------------------------

$formNavyDTG.SuspendLayout()

# formNavyDTG

$formNavyDTG.Controls.Add($buttonExit)

$formNavyDTG.Controls.Add($button_Clip)

$formNavyDTG.Controls.Add($label1)

$formNavyDTG.ClientSize = '500, 96'

$formNavyDTG.Name = "formNavyDTG"

$formNavyDTG.Text = "Navy DTG"

$formNavyDTG.add_Load($formNavyDTG_Load)

# buttonExit

$buttonExit.Location = '249, 58'

$buttonExit.Name = "buttonExit"

$buttonExit.Size = '244, 34'

$buttonExit.TabIndex = 2

$buttonExit.Text = "Exit"

$buttonExit.UseVisualStyleBackColor = $True

$buttonExit.add_Click($buttonExit_Click)

# button_Clip

$button_Clip.Location = '5, 58'

$button_Clip.Name = "button_Clip"

$button_Clip.Size = '244, 34'

$button_Clip.TabIndex = 1

$button_Clip.Text = "Send to Clipboard"

$button_Clip.UseVisualStyleBackColor = $True

$button_Clip.add_Click($button_Clip_Click)

# label1

$label1.BackColor = 'Navy'

$label1.Font = "Microsoft Sans Serif, 14.25pt"

$label1.ForeColor = 'Cyan'

$label1.Location = '6, 5'

$label1.Name = "label1"

$label1.Size = '487, 46'

$label1.TabIndex = 0

$label1.Text = "label1"

$label1.TextAlign = 'MiddleCenter'

# timer1

$timer1.add_Tick($timer1_Tick)

$formNavyDTG.ResumeLayout()

#endregion Generated Form Code

#----------------------------------------------

#Save the initial state of the form

$InitialFormWindowState = $formNavyDTG.WindowState

#Init the OnLoad event to correct the initial state of the form

$formNavyDTG.add_Load($Form_StateCorrection_Load)

#Clean up the control events

$formNavyDTG.add_FormClosed($Form_Cleanup_FormClosed)

#Show the Form

return $formNavyDTG.ShowDialog()

} #End Function

#Call the form

Call-NavyDTG_psf | Out-Null

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