Powershell script to check if given hours is between working hours - powershell

Question

What I've done is to get the current hour and then compare it to a string that I get as an output from a system that I split to get the starting hour and ending hour.
The check keeps showing up as True no matter what the time is
$current_day = Get-Date -Format "dddd"
$current_hour = Get-Date -Format "HH:mm"
$string = "Sat 16:00 to 00:00".Split(" ")
$day = $string[0]
$from_hour = Get-Date $string[1] -Format "HH:mm"
$to_hour = Get-Date $string[3] -Format "HH:mm"
Write-Output("CURRENT TIME: {0} {1}" -f $current_day, $current_hour)
Write-Output("GIVEN TIME: {0} from {1} to {2}" -f $string_day, $string_from_hour, $string_to_hour)
if($current_hour -le $from_hour -and $current_hour -ge $to_hour)
{
return $true
}
else
{
return $false
}

Answer 1

Your code does work with just a few small changes.
The most critical is just swapping the operators around for your if statement
Write-Output("GIVEN TIME: {0} from {1} to {2}" -f $string_day, $from_hour, $to_hour)
if($current_hour -ge $from_hour -and $current_hour -le $to_hour)
Finally, instead of comparing to 00:00 midnight, change the end time to 23:59 which is close enough for government work. With these two things done, it works.
CURRENT TIME: Thursday 19:13
GIVEN TIME: from 16:00 to 23:59
True

Answer 2

You can try something like this:
$StartTime = "16:00";
$EndTime = "00:00"
$EndTime_ = (Get-Date $EndTime).AddDays(1);
if (((Get-Date) -gt (Get-Date $StartTime)) -and ((Get-Date) -lt ($EndTime_))) {
Get-Date -Format "hh:mm";
}
else {
$false
}

Answer 3

Thanks everyone for their suggestions.
I couldn't miss a minute as the script is intended to run per hour.
So what I've done is to convert 00:00 into 99:99 (both current time and working hours) and it works flawlessly.