GetTime Step In-Place Editing

A Get Time step retrieves the time a test script is run at and returns it in a script variable.

To edit a Get Time script step:

  1. Select the step in the Script Steps table.
  2. Edit the step parameters as follows:
    • Session: This column displays no session type.
    • Return variable: This column displays the name of the script variable that is assigned a time value.
    • A new variable can be specified by clicking into the column and defining it in-place.

    • Command String: This column displays a format string–simple or compound–used for specifying the returned time information. Supported format strings are listed in Table:GetTime Format Strings:

Table:GetTime Format Strings

String
Action
%%
Inserts a %.
%a
Inserts an abbreviated weekday name (Mon, Tue, and so on.).
%A
Inserts a full weekday name (Monday, Tuesday, etc.).
%b
Inserts an abbreviated month name (Jan, Feb, etc.).
%B
Inserts a full month name.
%c
Inserts a locale-specific date and time. The format for date and time in the default "C" locale on Unix or Mac is "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y".
On Windows hosts, this value is the locale specific long date and time, as specified in the Regional Options control panel settings.
%C
Inserts the first two digits of the four-digit year (19 or 20).
%d
Inserts the day of month (01 - 31).
%D
Formats the date as %m/%d/%y.
%e
Inserts the day of month (1 - 31), no leading zeros.
%g
Inserts the ISO8601 year number corresponding to the ISO8601 week (%V), expressed as a two-digit year-of-the-century, with leading zero if necessary.
%G
Inserts the ISO8601 year number corresponding to the ISO8601 week (%V), expressed as a four-digit number.
%h
Inserts the abbreviated month name.
%H
Inserts the hour in 24-hour format (00 - 23).
%I
Inserts the hour in 12-hour format (01 - 12).
%j
Inserts the day of year (001 - 366).
%k
Inserts the hour in 24-hour format, without leading zeros (0 - 23).
%l
Inserts the hour in 12-hour format, without leading zeros (1 - 12).
%m
Inserts the month number (01 - 12).
%M
Inserts the minute (00 - 59).
%n
Inserts a newline.
%p
Inserts an AM or PM indicator.
%r
Formats the time in a locale-specific "meridian" format. The "meridian" format in the default "C" locale is "%I:%M:%S %p".
%R
Format the time as %H:%M.
%s
Inserts the count of seconds since the epoch, expressed as a decimal integer.
%S
Inserts the count of seconds (00 - 59).
%t
Inserts a tab.
%T
Formats the time as %H:%M:%S.
%u
Inserts the weekday number (Monday = 1, Sunday = 7).
%U
Inserts the week of the year (00 - 52), Sunday being the first day of the week.
%V
Inserts the week of the year according to ISO-8601 rules. Week 1 of a given year is the week containing 4 January.
%w
Inserts the weekday number (Sunday = 0, Saturday = 6).
%W
Inserts the week of the year (00 - 52), Monday being the first day of the week.
%x
Uses a locale-specific date format. The format for a date in the default "C" locale for Unix or Mac is "%m/%d/%y". On Windows, this value is the locale specific short date format, as specified in the Regional Options control panel settings.
%X
Uses a locale-specific 24-hour time format. The format for a 24-hour time in the default "C" locale for Unix or Mac is "%H:%M:%S". On Windows, this value is the locale- specific time format, as specified in the Regional Options control panel settings.
%y
Inserts the year without century (00 - 99).
%Y
Inserts the year with century (e.g. 1990)
%Z
Inserts the time zone name.

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