[Freeswitch-users] Current timestamp variable in dialplan?

[Brian West]

Ok let's step back, what do you mean by this?

On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 11:15 AM Antony Stone <
Antony.Stone at freeswitch.open.source.it> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> I own three Windows books, published by O'Reilly.   They are "Windows
> Annoyances", "Office 97 Annoyances" and "Windows 98 Annoyances".   That
> pretty
> much sums it up for me.
>
>                                                    Please reply to the
> list;
>                                                          please *don't* CC
> me.
>
> _________________________________________________________________________
>
> The FreeSWITCH project is sponsored by SignalWire https://signalwire.com
> Enhance your FreeSWITCH install with disruptive priced SMS and PSTN
> services.
> Build your next product on our scalable cloud platform.
>
> Join our online community to chat in real time
> https://signalwire.community
>
> Professional FreeSWITCH Services
> sales at freeswitch.com
> https://freeswitch.com
>
> Official FreeSWITCH Sites
> https://freeswitch.com/oss
> https://freeswitch.org/confluence
> https://cluecon.com
>
> FreeSWITCH-users mailing list
> FreeSWITCH-users at lists.freeswitch.org
> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users
> UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users
> https://freeswitch.com



-- 

Brian West | Co-founder and Developer

Need Commercial support? email sales at freeswitch.com

FreeSWITCH Solutions | 17345 Civic Drive #2531 Brookfield, WI 53045
<https://maps.google.com/?q=17345+Civic+Drive+%232531+Brookfield,+WI+53045&entry=gmail&source=g>

Email: brian at freeswitch.com

Mobile: 918-424-9378

Website: https://www.FreeSWITCH.com <https://www.freeswitch.com/>

[image: https://www.facebook.com/signalwireinc?src=email]
<https://www.facebook.com/freeswitch> [image:
https://twitter.com/freeswitch] <https://twitter.com/freeswitch>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freeswitch.org/pipermail/freeswitch-users/attachments/20221102/e4de260a/attachment-0001.html>