(PowerShell) Date/Time Expires Within N Seconds/Minutes/Hours/Days

Demonstrates the how to tell if a date/time is within N seconds, minutes, hours, or days of the current system time.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$dt = New-Object Chilkat.CkDateTime

# Set to the current system date/time.
$dt.SetFromCurrentSystemTime()
$("Now: " + $dt.GetAsTimestamp($true))

# Add 10 minutes, making the date 10 minutes in the future.
$dt.AddSeconds(600)
$("10 minutes from now: " + $dt.GetAsTimestamp($true))

# Is the date/time within 10 seconds of expiration (i.e. within 10 seconds of now)?
$b = $dt.ExpiresWithin(10,"seconds")
$("Expires within 10 seconds: " + $b)

# Does the date/time expire within 5 minutes?
$b = $dt.ExpiresWithin(5,"minutes")
$("Expires within 5 minutes: " + $b)

# Does the date/time expire within 15 minutes?
$b = $dt.ExpiresWithin(15,"minutes")
$("Expires within 15 minutes: " + $b)

# Does the date/time expire within 1 hour?
$b = $dt.ExpiresWithin(1,"hour")
$("Expires within 1 hour: " + $b)

# Does the date/time expire within 1 day?
$b = $dt.ExpiresWithin(1,"day")
$("Expires within 1 day: " + $b)

# Output:

# 	Now: 2017-05-05T23:48:00-0500
# 	10 minutes from now: 2017-05-05T23:58:00-0500
# 	Expires within 10 seconds: False
# 	Expires within 5 minutes: False
# 	Expires within 15 minutes: True
# 	Expires within 1 hour: True
# 	Expires within 1 day: True