Simpletime Sub-flow to obtain and format date/time data
This lightweight sub-flow produces a Date/Time output in different formats for use in node-red flows.
The sub-flow creates a mytime node which can be inserted in any running flow, and adds a number of messages to the flow as described below.
Details
The additional payloads added to the flow, and their typical content format are;
- msg.myrawdate: "2017-11-08T20:36:26.257Z"
- msg.myepoch: 1510173386257
- msg.mydate: "Wed Nov 08 2017"
- msg.myhour: "20"
- msg.myminute: "36"
- msg.myminutes: "36:26"
- msg.mysecond: "26"
- msg.mytime: "20:36"
- msg.mytimes: "20:36:26"
To introduce any of the messages into a flow, simply assign any, or any combination of the messages into a variable, such as; var seconds = msg.myseconds; or to use in a ui_text node add via mustache {{msg.mytimes}}
For more advanced timezone handling, node-red-contrib-moment is recommended.
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