Logging Variable UTC time

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Hi Guys!
Probably a very simple solution to this…

I need to send a timestamp in UTC time on start of item. Thinking %T{} but how to format it?

need the output formatted to “2024-01-18T14:56:14Z”

Thanks

2

Maybe…

%T{yyyy-mm-ddThh:nn:ssZ} / %T{yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss}

? :thinking:

Delphi Basics : FormatDateTime command

3

Hi Liam! You are right, but how to convert it from local time (CET) to UTC timestamp? Any idea? This is using the logging module in mAirlist and not via a script.

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Oh. Sorry, then I misunderstood the initial post. Unfortunately, I don’t know the way either. If it is possible at all.

Because in this format, I think mAirList only sends the time that mAirList was set to.

It would be interesting to know whether the internal clock is taken into account here :thinking:

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Hi Thomas,

try the following script:

procedure OnPlayerStart(PlaylistIndex: integer; PlayerIndex: integer; Item: IPlaylistItem);
var
  dt: TDateTime;
begin
  dt := Instance.FakeNow - 3600.0/86400.0;
  SetRuntimeData('Zulu', FormatDateTime('yyyy-mm-dd', dt) + 'T' 
    + FormatDateTime('hh:nn:ss', dt) + 'Z');
end;

begin
end.

Log %R{Zulu}. In case of DST change quotient to 7200.0/86400.0.

 
Happy holidays, TSD

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