Timestamp in Template

Third party integrations Node-RED
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I’m using the template node function in node red to create dynamic notifications and I’m wondering if there is a built-in timestamp function I call.

Current json:

{ 
"data": {
    "message":"I saw something at the {{ data.old_state.attributes.friendly_name }}, I'll just record this. - {{ now().strftime('%I:%M:%S %p') }}" }
}

However the {{ now().strftime('%I:%M:%S %p') }} function doesn’t seem to work within the template function. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

2

{{ as_timestamp(now())|timestamp_custom('%I:%M:%S %p') }}

3

I’ve found this node really useful for dealing with timestamps in Node-Red

4 
{ 
"data": {
    "message":"I saw something at the {{ data.old_state.attributes.friendly_name }}, I'll just record this. - {{ as_timestamp(now())|timestamp_custom('%I:%M:%S %p') }}" }
}

Tried your suggestion and it still doesn’t seem to evaluate it.

The result is just:

data: object
message: "I saw something at the Front Door, I’ll just record this. - "

5

Never mind. I really don’t know node red.

6

The node-red-contrib-moment module seems to do the trick. I just run the event through it and store it in a new data.time value to read out on the far end.