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Time presets (Date & Time category in Variable Wizard) retrieves the current date and time in one of the most used standards and character formatting for using in various situations from file & folder name creation and retrieval to dates and times used in emails.

Variable	Details
Preset	Choose the preset according to which the date & time value will be returned. Sortable file · returns a non-separated numerical value of date and time especially convenient for using in file and folder names. Example 1: 20240117073059 Example 2: 20241208224533 Sortable file (long) · returns a non-separated numerical value of date and time (including milliseconds). Example 1: 20240117073059815 Example 2: 20241208224533042 Sortable file (dashed) · returns a dash-separated date and time value which incorporates year, month, date, hour, minutes and seconds. Being easily readable this format also allows generating file and folder names that are easily sortable in ascending or descending order. Example 1: 2024-01-17-07-30-59 Example 2: 2024-12-08-22-45-33 System date · returns the numeric value of current date. Example 1: 1/17/2024 Example 2: 12/8/2024 System date (long) · returns current system date in text format including day of the week. Example 1: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 Example 2: Friday, December 8, 2023 System time · returns current system time. Example 1: 7:30 AM Example 2: 10:45 PM System time (long) · returns long value of current system time (including seconds). Example 1: 7:30:59 AM Example 2: 10:45:33 PM Sortable · returns numeric value of date and time in standard sortable format. Example 1: 2024-01-17T07:30:59 Example 2: 2024-12-08T22:45:33 Sortable (universal) · returns date and time in sortable numeric format. Example 1: 2024-01-17 07:30:59 Example 2: 2024-12-08 22:45:33 RFC 1123 · returns weekday, date and time in international format. Example 1: Tue, Jan 17, 2023 07:30:59 Example 2: Fri, Dec 08, 2023 22:45:33 UNIX epoch time · returns seconds, minutes, or hours elapsed since the Posix time · Details Example 1: 1673940659 Example 2: 1702032333
Universal time · UTC	Specifies that universal time (UTC) value will be returned instead of local time.
Adjust	Allows additionally modifying any value by adding or removing specified amount of days, minutes, seconds or milliseconds, thus also providing a possibility for retrieving a value of any previous or next date or hour.
Time units	Define and set a time frame in any given preferred format—be it milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, or days.
Preview	Shows format of time generated on basis of selected options.
Adjust	Streamline creation of Task workflows even further—instantly make quick variable adjustments such as in-place replacement (all, first, or last occurrence), trimming (whitespaces, quotes, etc.), or changing capitalization. Optionally, set a different display name.

Epoch time…

The UNIX epoch time used by Automation workshop is a TAI-based variant—it has no leap seconds, and every TAI day is exactly 86,400 seconds long. Thus in Automation Workshop, the UNIX epoch time is expressed as seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970.

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