How to get the creation time for each file and format it

Question

I can format the time of the files with the following command:

Get-ChildItem Dropbox | Get-Date -format "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm"

I can get the CreationTime of the files with the following command:

Get-ChildItem Dropbox | Select-Object CreationTime

They blow up when I combine them together. How can I get the creation time in a format I desire?

Answer 1

You need to expand the CreationTime property:

Get-ChildItem Dropbox | 
  Select-Object -ExpandProperty CreationTime | 
  Get-Date -f "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm"