Current timestamp in Program rule

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Hello,

Is there any way we can get current timestamp in program rule action? I know we have V{current_date}, but I need current time also to set up one of the field value.

Thanks in advance,
Hiral

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Hi @ramavat

Yes, there isnā€™t a ā€œcurrent_date_timeā€ variable.. what is your usecase for using ā€˜current timeā€™? Time is also calculated during the event creation and can be retrieved through several ways. Would you share an example use case and how a real expression would look like? ā€œIf current_time is 12AM thenā€¦?ā€

This is probably a feature request, and it reminds me of another feature request which is to calculate the duration in a format the included hours, minutes, and seconds, but in the ticket thereā€™s a discussion of the real-world use cases, Jira

Looking forward to learn more. Thanks!

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We wanted to generate unique id using program rule. For example, personā€™s TEI, we have Personā€™s First name, last name and then want to add timestamp to make it unique.

Thanks,
Hiral

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@Gassim Any idea on this? We need some unique number or alpha numeric value in Program rule.