[Freeswitch-users] Current timestamp variable in dialplan?

[Antony Stone]

On Wednesday 02 November 2022 at 16:12:22, Brian West wrote:

> Are you trying to do something like billing? If so using variables or
> anything getvar related will result in pool swell.
> 
> Billing is out of band, or inband with things like nibble bill, which is
> just an implementation of a core idea of being able to nibble from a
> balance using the session heartbeats.

No, this is nothing to do with billing.

I'm basically just looking for the same value which would be logged in a 
verbose logfile output against each dialplan action.

> On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 9:55 AM Antony Stone wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I'm looking for a variable I can access in the dialplan (I use XML if it
> > matters) which will tell me the current time (when I read the variable)
> > in the format 2022-11-02 12:34:56.789789
> > 
> > If that's not available, but a microsecond-resolution Epoch timestamp is,
> > what would be the function to convert this to the above human format?
> > 
> > https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Switch+core+variables
> > tells me about variables which are set after a channel is hung up, so
> > they're no use during call setup, and
> > 
> > https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Channel+Variables
> > doesn't seem to have anything which represents "now".
> > 
> > 
> > Can anyone suggest where I should be looking to find such variables?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > 
> > Antony.

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