Getting current system time predicate

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Hi!
how i can get current system time predicate, like “now is $time” to send it in mail?
thanks

Hi,

you can use: "now is {date()}". See also pimatic/pimatic#145.

Can you give an example how to use the format attribute?

I tried it in a rule with
it is {date(‘YYYY-MM-DD hhss’)} but the rule parser didn’t accept this.

Further more I tried to use date() in a VariablesDevice like

{
  "id": "testDevice",
  "name": "testDevice",
  "class": "VariablesDevice",
  "variables": [
    {
      "name": "testvar1",
      "expression": "it is date()",
      "type": "string"
    }
  ]
},

This gives ‘Could not parse expression’. date() alone in the expression without other text works.

What do you want to archive with the rule?

For the VariableDevice (untested):

{
  "id": "testDevice",
  "name": "testDevice",
  "class": "VariablesDevice",
  "variables": [
    {
      "name": "testvar1",
      "expression": "\"it is {date()}\"",
      "type": "string"
    }
  ]
},

Ah, the string needs the quotes. Thanks a lot! But how to use a format?

"expression": "\"it is {date(\"YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss\")}\"",