[asterisk-users] STRFTIME function declared in globals context

[Barry Miller]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:30:44AM -0500, Warren Selby wrote:
> I'm trying to declare a few date-related global variables to ease my
> dialplan.  When I declare the following in the [globals] context of
> extensions.conf, I get unexpected results:
> 
> YEAR = ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y)}
> MONTH = ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%m)}
> DAY = ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%d)}
> TIMESTAMP = ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)}
> 
> If I evaluate these variables in the dialplan later, using
> 
> exten => 7777,n,Verbose(${TIMESTAMP} - ${YEAR} - ${MONTH} - ${DAY})
> 
> My output is as follows:
> 
>     -- Executing [7777 at phones:3] Verbose("SIP/2625-0000d5f0", "Tue Jul 13
> 11:08:42 2010 - Tue Jul 13 11:08:42 2010 - Tue Jul 13 11:08:42 2010 - Tue
> Jul 13 11:08:42 2010") in new stack
> Tue Jul 13 11:08:42 2010 - Tue Jul 13 11:08:42 2010 - Tue Jul 13 11:08:42
> 2010 - Tue Jul 13 11:08:42 2010
> 
> However, the following line:
> 
> exten => 7777,n,Verbose(${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)} -
> ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y)} - ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%m)} -
> ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%d)})
> 
> evaluates with what I expect:
> 
>     -- Executing [7777 at phones:4] Verbose("SIP/2625-0000d5f0",
> "20100713-110853 - 2010 - 07 - 13") in new stack
> 20100713-110853 - 2010 - 07 - 13
> 
> Is what I'm trying to do possible?  It seems like it's at least recognizing
> that I'm trying to grab a date, but it's not taking the date format
> parameters that I want.

Try adding "preload => func_strings.so" to modules.conf

-- 
Barry