Hi Antony,
NOW is not a variable...
In the majority of cases (the exceptions are things like CUT)...
variables are utilized by ${}
If NOW was a variable you would see it written as ${NOW}
The word NOW is actually not special. Deep in the Asterisk source (if
you are curious), the flow is this:
acf_strftime
-> ast_get_timeval
"NOW" gets passed as a string to ast_get_timeval, which really scans for
a numeric unixtime. If the scan fails (if the input is not a proper
seconds-since-epoch-unixtime), then it uses a default.
Oddly enough you could pass "POTATO" to STRFTIME and it would work just
fine... since no matter what the value is, if it doesn't parse properly
the default is ast_tvnow which is a high resolution 'now'
On 3/16/22 09:01, Antony Stone wrote:
On Wednesday 16 March 2022 at 13:38:44, Tom Ray wrote:
What have you actually tried? STRFTIME(NOW,America/Detroit,%3q) doesn't
work?
That works - thank you for the pointer. I was not aware of the word "NOW" - I
have always used the variable ${EPOCH} when I needed a timestamp.
Do you know where this is documented? I would have expected it to be in
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Standard+Channel+Variables
for example, which does mention ${EPOCH}, and also shows an example of
${STRFTIME()}, using ${EPOCH} as the timestamp value.
Antony.
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