[asterisk-users] Time variables in system application

[Roderick A. Anderson]

khalid touati wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> for people who may have the same issue:
> i was just not using STRFTIME the right way, after consulting docs, i'm 
> using it like this:
> exten => 
> 8888,n,Set(FAXFILENOEXT=/var/spool/asterisk/fax/${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},America/New_York,%F_%T)})
> 
> instead of this:
> exten => 
> 8888,n,Set(FAXFILENOEXT=/var/spool/asterisk/fax/${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},GMT-5,%F_%T)}) 
> and it's displaying the right time now!!

You might need to put America/New_York in quotes -- 'America/New_York' 
or "America/New_York".

This based on my experience with the Perl DateTime module.  Of course 
YMMV and you have it working now.  :-)


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Rod
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> 2010/4/13 Danny Nicholas <danny at debsinc.com <mailto:danny at debsinc.com>>
> 
>     My "derailed" train of thought came from OP's mention of Centos 5.3
>     - I have
>     to do a "hwclock -s" on my 5.3 box at least daily to keep a
>     reasonable time.
> 
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>     On Tuesday 13 April 2010 14:00:36 Danny Nicholas wrote:
>      > Just what I thought - guess that's the X'th time I wuz wrong today.
> 
>     The only difference between what I think you're calling the system time
>     (output of date) and Asterisk is that Asterisk uses a different
>     (internal)
>     library to convert the epoch-based time into a broken-out date.  Both
>     are using exactly the same value internally, however.  Hardware clock is
>     generally how system time is set initially at boot, though with NTP
>     servers
>     and system skew, it's possible for the two values to drift apart
>     over time.
> 
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