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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. Sortable file (long) · returns a non-separated numerical value of date and time (including milliseconds). 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. System date · returns the numeric value of current date. System date (long) · returns current system date in text format including day of the week. System time · returns current system time. System time (long) · returns long value of current system time (including seconds). Sortable · returns numeric value of date and time in standard sortable format. Sortable (universal) · returns date and time in sortable numeric format. RFC 1123 · returns weekday, date and time in international format. UNIX epoch time · returns seconds, minutes, or hours elapsed since the Posix time · Details
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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