Extracting the second from current time

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I am using this code to extract the hour minutes and seconds ,and i have given the code inside the loop and i have noticed that while running the code the time does not changes for each and every loop (even the seconds remains same for every loop )

datetime = DateTimeUtil::getSystemDateTime();

filenameToRet = (int2str(DateTimeUtil::year(datetime)))+(int2str(DateTimeUtil::month(datetime)))+(int2str(DateTimeUtil::day(datetime)))+(int2str(DateTimeUtil::hour(datetime)))+(int2str(DateTimeUtil::minute(datetime)))+(int2str(DateTimeUtil::second(datetime)))

Any one please give me the solution

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Sohaib Cheema 49,443 User Group Leader on at

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It is working with me, e.g. execute below code and check results. Don't forget to set your own timezone

TransDateTime myDateTime=DateTimeUtil::applyTimeZoneOffset(DateTimeUtil::getSystemDateTime(),Timezone::GMT_CASABLANCA); int hours; int minutes; int seconds; str filenameToRet; utcDateTime datetime = DateTimeUtil::getSystemDateTime(); info(datetime2str(myDateTime)); hours=DateTimeUtil::hour(myDateTime); minutes=DateTimeUtil::minute(myDateTime); seconds=DateTimeUtil::second(myDateTime); info(strfmt('Hours %1 - Minutes %2 - Seconds %3',int2str(hours),int2str(minutes),int2str(seconds))); filenameToRet = (int2str(DateTimeUtil::year(datetime)))+(int2str(DateTimeUtil::month(datetime)))+(int2str(DateTimeUtil::day(datetime)))+(int2str(DateTimeUtil::hour(datetime)))+(int2str(DateTimeUtil::minute(datetime)))+(int2str(DateTimeUtil::second(datetime))); info(filenameToRet);

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Martin Dráb 237,987 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Make sure you set datetime inside the loop.

By the way, your code can be simplified to:

filenameToRet = System.String::Format('{0:yyyyMdHms}', datetime);

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Thank you soo much Sohib and Martin

ur code works perfectly but when i gave inside a while loop the time remains the same for all loop but value of filenameToRet

changes for each and every loop how it is happening

ill attach the screen shot

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Sohaib Cheema 49,443 User Group Leader on at

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it is possible that a loop can take less than one second.

keeping that in mind for all 5 times, you will get same results.

Makes sense?

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Rudi Hansen 4,075 on at

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You are setting the Variable dataTime to current time inside the loop, but you are calculating the values based on the myDateTime variable.

Also its possible with this loop that you would run all your code in under one second, so your values would not change.

Try to put in a Sleep(1000) in your loop.

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Sohaib Cheema 49,443 User Group Leader on at

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one more point which is not related to your question, but that's related general logic or algorithm

in your given screenshot, you are setting i=1; inside loop

that means you want to go into an infinite loop

keep it outside loop, if you don't want to be in an infinite loop . it will always be <5 because you are setting every time i=1

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but what is while debugging it makes a delay but even then the time was not changing

but after changing the mydatetime variable into datetime its working fine :)

Thank you soo much sohaib for us valuable time

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thank you rudi it works

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Martin Dráb 237,987 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Try it with stopping the execution for half a second:

urcDateTime d;
int i; str s; for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) { d = DateTimeUtil::getSystemDateTime(); s = System.String::Format('{0:yyyyMdHms}', d); info(s); sleep(500); }

Update: I see I was way too slow. :-)

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