Powershell Date - powershell

Question

I have a personalized powershell profile, on my $PROFILE I have added the Get-Date command and it gives me the date at the moment the script is executed, I wanted to know if it is possible to have the time updated every second or five and still being able to use the powershell, Ive tried a lot of possibilities but cant find one that works, if thi is not possible is there anything similar?
thanks.
ive tried a lot of whiles, jobs ...
here some examples of what I have tried:
$script = {
while ($true) {
Write-Output (Get-Date -Format G)
Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
}
}
Start-Job -ScriptBlock $script
while ($true) {
Write-Host (Get-Date -Format G) -NoNewline
Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
Write-Host "`r" -NoNewline
}

Answer 1

You could modifiy the prompt function for this. This way it won't interfere with commands output and the terminal.
Check current definition with:
(Get-Command prompt).ScriptBlock
It should be something like this:
"PS $($executionContext.SessionState.Path.CurrentLocation)$('>' * ($nestedPromptLevel + 1)) ";
Then modify it for current session only (just paste and execute in terminal):
function prompt {
"$(get-date -f 'G') PS $($executionContext.SessionState.Path.CurrentLocation)$('>' * ($nestedPromptLevel + 1)) ";
}
prompt before:
PS C:\Users\username>
prompt after:
2023-02-09 16:13:13 PS C:\Users\username>
If it works as expected, you can place new function definition in $PROFILE. This way you'll always have the time of all meaningful events, i.e. every command/script start and completion.