Vista - find oldest folder

Get-ChildItem -name | Sort-Object CreationTime -Descending | Select-Object
-first 1

For some reason, this line doesn't work properly. When running this line, it
always return wrong folder as oldest. Windows Explorer clearly show oldest
folder in Detail View with Date Created column, but PowerShell doesn't.

Help please.

When you call "Get-ChildItem -name" you strip all object attributes except
the name, so the remainder of the pipeline will not do anything useful

This pipeline returns the name of the subfolder with the oldest
"creationtime" within the current working directory (non recursive):

dir | ?{$_.psiscontainer} | sort creationtime | select -first 1 | select name

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Gerd

"MiroslavK" wrote:

> Get-ChildItem -name | Sort-Object CreationTime -Descending | Select-Object
> -first 1
>
> For some reason, this line doesn't work properly. When running this line, it
> always return wrong folder as oldest. Windows Explorer clearly show oldest
> folder in Detail View with Date Created column, but PowerShell doesn't.
>
> Help please.

Thank you very much!



"Gerd Schneider" wrote:

> When you call "Get-ChildItem -name" you strip all object attributes except
> the name, so the remainder of the pipeline will not do anything useful
>
> This pipeline returns the name of the subfolder with the oldest
> "creationtime" within the current working directory (non recursive):
>
> dir | ?{$_.psiscontainer} | sort creationtime | select -first 1 | select name
>
> -----
> Gerd