Do you want to get the current date and time and use it in the flow ? You can use java or just build a custom element which will do that.
Hemal

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Ivan Fernandez has created a new message in the forum "General Discussion - All Versions": -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi
I can get the date of the month, the month and the year and minutes? using the substituon element and selecting date current but i ant get the time e.g 10:43:12 .
I can use java as a workaround but was wondering if it can be done using one of the call studio elements or if i am missing something...
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Hi,

Could you get this working? I have a related problem:
 
I'm trying to get the time difference (in minutes and seconds) between  two distinct moments in my call flow.
I have one Java class in the beggining of the flow, which stores the current time in session data, after that, the app plays on hold music. At any time the user can press one key, captured by a hotlink which points to another Java class, where I get the the current time again, and calculate the time difference between now, and the initial time (stored previously in data session). The problem is: when I try to get the current time after play on hold music, it gives me the same time as the initial.

I tried with

java.sql.Time time = new Time(System.currentTimeMillis());

time.getTime();

Date  date = new Date();

date.getTime();

When I run this code localy, I get the time difference, which made me think it might be some CVP issue:

Date  date1 = new Date();
System.out.println(date1); Mon Apr 08 12:53:33 BST 2013
System.out.println(date1.getTime()); 1365422013766
 
Thread.sleep(3000);
 
Date date2 = new Date();
System.out.println(date2); Mon Apr 08 12:53:36 BST 2013
System.out.println(date2.getTime()); 1365422016786

I'd be grateful with any help on this.

Thanks

This works:

//if date1 doesn't exist, it's the first time in, so create it
//if date1 exists, then this is the 2nd time in - get the difference

Date date1=(Date) actionData.getSessionData("date1");
if(date1==null){
date1 = new Date();
data.setSessionData("date1",date1);
} else {
Date date2== new Date();
System.out.println("duration="+(date2.getTime()-date1.getTime()));
data.setSessionData("duration", date2.getTime()-date1.getTime());
}

Zelino,
If the milliseconds value is the same, perhaps you didn't actually create a new Date()? Dates are static once created.

Hi,
Thank you very much for your help Janine. It's working now.