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Gordon_Johnston
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusDate/Time sensitive iRules
Another question if I may.
How can I query the current time of day with an iRule. I'd like an iRule to apply at only certain times of the day, and rather than writing cron entries to update the config (ugly) I'd like to do this with the iRule itself. Is this possible? Can you point me in the way of some documentation, I couldn't find anything relevent.
Cheers
Brian_Gupta_115Have you considered writing iControl external scripts to make these config changes... You'd still need a scheduler to trigger the scripts, but at least you'd be using their API.
-Brian- JRahm
Admin
use the clock command: http://tmml.sourceforge.net/doc/tcl/clock.htmlset curtime [clock seconds] set formattedtime [clock format $curtime] log "$curtime seconds since epoch, $formattedtime"
The log entry looks like this:
1129552706 seconds since epoch, Mon Oct 17 07:38:26 CDT 2005
. - JRahmIf you only want to return hours and minutes for easier evaluation, change the format line to read:
set formattedtime [clock format $curtime -format {%H:%S} ] 
Gordon_JohnstonExcellent the formatted output from clock is exactly what's needed. Thanks.
Ninjai_DI_67376set formated_time [clock format $time_now -format {%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}]
You can use this format.
Thanks.
