Measure-Object should support TimeSpan #10712
Description
Summary of the new feature/enhancement
TimeSpans have all arithmetic operators defined on them (addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, equality, greater/less than). However, Measure-Object only works on numbers. If you pipe a TimeSpan to it, it will error with
measure-object : Input object "00:00:00" is not numeric.
It would be very useful if Measure-Object could work on TimeSpan objects too.
Example use case: Measure the time spent in meetings today and their average duration:
Get-GSCalendarEvent -TimeMin (Get-Date).Date -TimeMax (Get-Date).Date.AddDays(1) -SingleEvents |
ForEach-Object { $_.End.DateTime - $_.Start.DateTime } |
Measure-Object -AllStats
Count : 3
Average : 1:00:00
Sum : 3:00:00
Maximum : 2:00:00
Minimum : 0:30:00
StandardDeviation : 0:30:00
Property :Currently, this is more cumbersome:
Get-GSCalendarEvent -TimeMin (Get-Date).Date -TimeMax (Get-Date).Date.AddDays(1) -SingleEvents |
ForEach-Object { $_.End.DateTime - $_.Start.DateTime } |
ForEach-Object { $s = New-TimeSpan } { $s += $_ } { $s }And this only gets you the sum. All the other stats require way more code.