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Get Current Time

Robomotion•Updated 6 months ago
Get Current Time

Overview

Reads the local date and time and formats it as a long time string (HH:mm:ss). Displays the result in an information dialog so you can verify the system clock at a glance.

Get Current Time

Creating and handling datetime values are vital for time-related operations, such as generating logs. Robomotion provides various nodes to create, convert and manipulate datetime values.

What Get Current Time can do

  • Robomotion.DateTime.Now (optLayout: 'RFC3339', optTimezoneOffset: 'Local') → msg.current_date_time.
  • Robomotion.DateTime.Format converts msg.current_date_time using optCustomOutLayout: '15:04:05' → msg.long_time.
  • Core.Programming.Function composes msg.dialog_text = 'It is ' + msg.long_time + ' currently.'.
  • Core.Dialog.MessageBox titled Time right now (type info) displays msg.dialog_text, then Core.Flow.Stop.

Behind the scenes

  • The Format node uses an explicit Go-style layout 15:04:05 rather than a named enum, so the output is deterministic across machines and locales instead of varying with the host's regional settings.
  • optTimezoneOffset: 'Local' anchors the timestamp to the robot's clock, matching user expectations when the dialog is displayed interactively; switch to 'UTC' for logs and audit trails.