<div dir="ltr">What problem are you trying to solve?  I still can't clearly understand what you're trying to accomplish.<div><br></div><div>/b</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 12:12 PM Antony Stone <<a href="mailto:Antony.Stone@freeswitch.open.source.it">Antony.Stone@freeswitch.open.source.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wednesday 02 November 2022 at 17:18:26, Brian West wrote:<br>
<br>
> Ok let's step back, what do you mean by this?<br>
<br>
I mean that I wish either to assign the current timestamp to a variable in the <br>
format 2022-11-02 12:34:56.789789, or to find a system variable which will <br>
provide this when I reference something like ${now}.<br>
<br>
I hope that's clear?<br>
<br>
As a workaround until I find out how to do this the correct way, the following <br>
command does what I want, however I suspect it's not very efficient:<br>
<br>
<action<br>
        application="set"<br>
        data="now=${regex(${system date '+%F %T.%N'}|(.+)|%1)}"<br>
/><br>
<br>
I got the somewhat complicated syntax of that command from <br>
<a href="https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/mod_dptools:+system" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/mod_dptools:+system</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Antony.<br>
<br>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 11:15 AM Antony Stone  wrote:<br>
> > On Wednesday 02 November 2022 at 16:12:22, Brian West wrote:<br>
> > > Are you trying to do something like billing? If so using variables or<br>
> > > anything getvar related will result in pool swell.<br>
> > > <br>
> > > Billing is out of band, or inband with things like nibble bill, which<br>
> > > is just an implementation of a core idea of being able to nibble from<br>
> > > a balance using the session heartbeats.<br>
> > <br>
> > No, this is nothing to do with billing.<br>
> > <br>
> > I'm basically just looking for the same value which would be logged in a<br>
> > verbose logfile output against each dialplan action.<br>
> > <br>
> > > On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 9:55 AM Antony Stone wrote:<br>
> > > > Hi.<br>
> > > > <br>
> > > > I'm looking for a variable I can access in the dialplan (I use XML if<br>
> > > > it matters) which will tell me the current time (when I read the<br>
> > > > variable) in the format 2022-11-02 12:34:56.789789<br>
> > > > <br>
> > > > If that's not available, but a microsecond-resolution Epoch timestamp<br>
> > > > is, what would be the function to convert this to the above human<br>
> > > > format?<br>
> > > > <a href="https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Switch+core+" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Switch+core+</a><br>
> > > > variables tells me about variables which are set after a channel is<br>
> > > > hung up, so they're no use during call setup, and<br>
> > > > <br>
> > > > <a href="https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Channel+Variables" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Channel+Variables</a><br>
> > > > doesn't seem to have anything which represents "now".<br>
> > > > <br>
> > > > <br>
> > > > Can anyone suggest where I should be looking to find such variables?<br>
> > > > <br>
> > > > <br>
> > > > Thanks,<br>
> > > > <br>
> > > > <br>
> > > > Antony.<br>
<br>
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