[asterisk-users] What's up with DATETIME and TIMESTAMP in Asterisk 1.4beta3 ?

[Alvin Austin]

Hello,

In Asterisk 1.4 beta 3, the UPGRADE.txt file says:

Variables:
* The builtin variables ${CALLERID}, ${CALLERIDNAME}, ${CALLERIDNUM},
  ${CALLERANI}, ${DNID}, ${RDNIS}, ${DATETIME}, ${TIMESTAMP}, 
${ACCOUNTCODE},
  and ${LANGUAGE} have all been deprecated in favor of their related 
dialplan
  functions.  You are encouraged to move towards the associated dialplan
  function, as these variables will be removed in a future release.

However, neither the function or application for either of TIMESTAMP or 
DATETIME seems to work in 1.4beta3...

exten => *333,1,NoOp(DATETIME() : ${DATETIME()})
exten => *333,n,NoOp(DATETIME : ${DATETIME})
exten => *333,n,NoOp(TIMESTAMP() : ${TIMESTAMP()})
exten => *333,n,NoOp(TIMESTAMP : ${TIMESTAMP})

Asterisk 1.2.9.1:
-----------------

Dec 15 12:56:26 ERROR[26373]: pbx.c:1383 ast_func_read: Function 
DATETIME not registered
    -- Executing NoOp("<channel>", "DATETIME() : 0") in new stack
    -- Executing NoOp("<channel>", "DATETIME : 20061215-12:56:26") in 
new stack
Dec 15 12:56:26 ERROR[26373]: pbx.c:1383 ast_func_read: Function 
TIMESTAMP not registered
    -- Executing NoOp("<channel>", "TIMESTAMP() : 0") in new stack
    -- Executing NoOp("<channel>", "TIMESTAMP : 20061215-125626") in new 
stack


Asterisk 1.4.0-beta3:
---------------------

[Dec 15 13:59:52] ERROR[28236]: pbx.c:1497 ast_func_read: Function 
DATETIME not registered
    -- Executing [*333@<context>:1] NoOp("<channel>", "DATETIME() : ") 
in new stack
    -- Executing [*333@<context>:2] NoOp("<channel>", "DATETIME : ") in 
new stack
[Dec 15 13:59:52] ERROR[28236]: pbx.c:1497 ast_func_read: Function 
TIMESTAMP not registered
    -- Executing [*333@<context>:3] NoOp("<channel>", "TIMESTAMP() : ") 
in new stack
    -- Executing [*333@<context>:4] NoOp("<channel>", "TIMESTAMP : ") in 
new stack


Any ideas?

Thanks,
Alvin