get-eventlog does not display time on out-file

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019

Powershell is fun and yet there are times it can be annoying.

I am doing a refresh as I am looking for a new job. My last one was not script minded.

A simply test was to get use get-eventlog sort by index and time. It did this. Next was to output index, time and source.

get-eventlog -logname Security -newest 50 |select-object -property index,time,source | sort time,index | out-file c:\last.txt

The other two worked. Time did not.

You would think it would be obvious to simply use “time” and well; it isn’t.

You need to use timegenerated or timewritten.

get-eventlog -logname Application -newest 50 |select-object -property index,timegenerated,source | sort index,time

More reading to do.

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