Date/Time format

[finspin]

Is there an easy way to generate current date in the following format DD/MM/YYYY?

To my understanding the built in Get Time keyword doesn't support this kind of formatting.

[Mikko Korpela]

Hi,

Although the "BuiltIn.Get Time" is partly kind of confusing keyword it
can be used to achieve what you want:

*** Keywords ***
times
${foo}= Get Time year month day
${bar}= Set Variable ${foo[2]}/${foo[1]}/${foo[0]}

You could of course make your own python/java keyword that does the same trick.

Kind Regards,
Mikko Korpela

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[finspin]

Fantastic! I didn't think of using the keyword that way. Thanks!

On Monday, 20 August 2012 12:23:37 UTC+3, Mikko Korpela wrote:

Hi,

Although the "BuiltIn.Get Time" is partly kind of confusing keyword it
can be used to achieve what you want:

*** Keywords ***
times
    ${foo}=    Get Time    year month day
    ${bar}=    Set Variable    ${foo[2]}/${foo[1]}/${foo[0]}

You could of course make your own python/java keyword that does the same trick.

Kind Regards,
Mikko Korpela

2012/8/20 finspin <jaros...@gmail.com>:
> Is there an easy way to generate current date in the following format
> DD/MM/YYYY?
>
> To my understanding the built in Get Time keyword doesn't support this kind
> of formatting.
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[Kevin O.]

Here's yet another way of doing it

    ${yyyy}    ${mm}    ${dd}    Get Time    year,month,day

    ${date}    Set Variable    ${dd}/${mm}/${yyyy}

[sudip pudasaini]

What could be the better way to convert mm-dd-yyyy date format to either yyyy-mm-dd or dd-mm-yyyy? I have tried several ways but could not find the solution. Can you guys suggest me the way to resolve this problem?

[Trey Duskin]

I have a library that I started a while ago to help improve date & time manipulations in RF.  I don't know if it will give you what you want but it might be a start: https://github.com/tduskin/robotframework-datetimelibrary

[Ben Fariello]

I had just shared this with one of my coworkers last Thursday. Try the (built-in) DateTime library. Specifically, you can use this:

http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/libraries/DateTime.html#Convert%20Date

and specify date_format (for the input) and result_format (the desired format of the output). Try something like this:

*** Settings ***

Library    DateTime

*** Test Cases ***

Give Me Days
    ${today} =         Get Current Date    result_format=%Y-%m-%d

Should Be Equal    ${today}    2015-06-15

    #result_format=%Y-%m-%d gives you, for example, 2015-06-15

    ${converted} =     Convert Date    ${today}    date_format=%Y-%m-%d    result_format=%m-%d-%y

Should Be Equal    ${converted}    06-15-15

#%m-%d-%y will give you 06-15-15 ---- note that %Y is the four-digit year and %y is the two-digit year! That matters.

Pardon the Retina screen (i.e. giant screenshot) but you can see here that when this test case runs, it passes. http://i.imgur.com/gRRFhRk.png

On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 2:04:20 AM UTC-4, sudip pudasaini wrote:

[Ben Fariello]

Note: I accidentally dropped the "BuiltIn" library from this example, so you'll have to include that too (for the Should Be Equal keyword). I tacked this test case on to a Suite I'd already written for simplicity's sake, and ripped out everything but the case, and added in the parts I thought I needed.

[Nick Shaw]

I can second Ben's advice here, this is how I solved the same issue.

[Dmitry Boyko]

Thank you for sharing your code..
It works perfectly in my case.
Could you please help me increase usability of this method?
I need have possibility add to text fields date yesterday and tommorow.
How I can do that?
Thank you for you passion.

[Tatu Aalto]

Ugh

Answer to that question is explained in the keyword documentation: http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/libraries/BuiltIn.html#Get%20Time

-Tatu
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[anna...@directpl.com]

I have a different question:

How can I in RF convert time from 12-hour (AM and PM) into 24-hour and inversely?

[Kevin O.]

Using the DateTime library: http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/libraries/DateTime.html