[Freeswitch-users] Current timestamp variable in dialplan?

[Gregor Nanger]

What does ${regex(${system date '+%F %T.%6N'}|(.+)|%1)} returns? If I try
it in CLI I don't get anything.

On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 at 14:17, Antony Stone <
Antony.Stone at freeswitch.open.source.it> wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 November 2022 at 13:54:07, Gregor Nanger wrote:
>
> > If you would aks me, I would say that this simple functionality is
> > available in FS and within 2 minutes I can google it. But now I am
> > struggling for hours and can't find a solution to print, log... current
> > time in microseconds or nanoseconds. If %q would work in strftime it
> would
> > be a solution, but it doesn't work.
> >
> > Is there another tool to display the current time in micro/nano seconds?
>
> The only thing I've come up with is:
>
> <action
>    application="set"
>    data="now=${regex(${system date '+%F %T.%6N'}|(.+)|%1)}"
> />
>
> Note however that Brian West has said "I'd not recommend doing that,
> because
> every time you do a get var, you cause a pool allocation and doing this in
> a
> loop will make your session pool swell at the rate of whatever you're
> calling
> get_var on.  Doing anything at all inline with the dialplan is not the
> right
> approach.  your logic and info should be all external, keying off events
> either
> on ESL or custom modules you wrote."
>
>
> Antony.
>
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