Randy Gelhausen created NIFI-1078: ------------------------------------- Summary: ${now()} returns string dates instead of a number of milliseconds Key: NIFI-1078 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1078 Project: Apache NiFi Issue Type: Bug Components: Core Framework Affects Versions: 0.4.0 Reporter: Randy Gelhausen
Per the docs: The now function returns the current date and time as the number of milliseconds since Midnight GMT on January 1, 1970. However, when using ${now()} in expression language, the result is: "Tue Oct 27 22:12:21 EDT 2015" -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)