Convert Datetime to Text

Handling datetime data can be challenging, as numerous formats have been adopted across the globe. Robomotion enables the conversion of datetime variables to predefined and custom formats so that flows can handle data independently of the originating region.

What Convert Datetime to Text can do

• Get now (Robomotion.DateTime.Now, optLayout: RFC3339, optTimezoneOffset: Local) → msg.current_date_time.
• Short date (Robomotion.DateTime.Format, custom out layout 1/2/2006) → msg.formatted_date_time; Function builds msg.dialog_text = "Current date in 'short date' text format:\n" + msg.formatted_date_time, then Core.Dialog.MessageBox titled Result (info).
• Short time (custom out layout 3:04 PM) → dialog Current time in 'short time' text format:\n....
• Long date (custom out layout January 02, 2006) → dialog Current date in 'MMMM dd, yyyy' text format:\n....
• Today sentence (custom out layout Today is 02th day of January of Year 2006) → dialog showing msg.formatted_date_time directly.
• 12-hour time (custom out layout 03:04:05 PM) → dialog Current time in 'hh:mm:ss tt' text format:\n....
• Time sentence (custom out layout It is currently 03 hours 04 minutes and 05 seconds.) → dialog showing msg.formatted_date_time directly.
• Full datetime (custom out layout Monday, 02 January, 2006 | 03:04:05 PM) → dialog Today's date and time is ..., then Core.Flow.Stop.

Behind the scenes

• msg.current_date_time is captured once at the top as RFC3339; every subsequent Robomotion.DateTime.Format step reads the same value and only changes optCustomOutLayout.
• Robomotion.DateTime.Format uses Go-style reference-time layouts — 1/2/2006, 3:04 PM, January 02, 2006, etc. — where the specific reference numbers (year 2006, month 01, day 02, hour 15/03, minute 04, second 05) mark which field goes where. Literal words like Today is or of Year pass through verbatim.
• msg.formatted_date_time is reused across every format step, so each dialog always reflects the most recent conversion.