Date

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Module contains step implementations for the Date task.

Parse

Create an instance of the Date task.

Parses a datetime string and transforms it according to specified arguments.

See Date task documentation for more information about arguments.

This step is useful when changes has to be made to a datetime representation during an iteration of a scenario.

Example

...
And value for variable "date1" is "none"
And value for variable "date2" is "none"
And value for variable "date3" is "none"
And value for variable "AtomicDate.test" is "now"

Then parse date "2022-01-17 12:21:37 | timezone=UTC, format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f", offset=1D" and save in variable "date1"
Then parse date "{{ AtomicDate.test }} | offset=-1D" and save in variable "date2"
Then parse date "{{ datetime.now() }} | offset=1Y" and save in variable "date3"

Arguments

Name	Type	Description	Default
value	str	datetime string and arguments	required
variable	str	name of, initialized, variable where response will be saved in	required

Format

value

<date> [| format=<format>][, timezone=<timezone>][, offset=<offset>]

Name	Type	Description	Default
date	str | datetime	string representation of a date and/or time or a datetime object, e.g. datetime.now()	required
format	str	python strftime format string or ISO-8601:[DateTime|Time][:ms][:no-sep]	required
timezone	str	valid timezone name	None (local)
offset	str	time span string describing the offset, Y = years, M = months, D = days, h = hours, m = minutes, s = seconds, e.g. 1Y-2M10D	None

See wikipedia ISO 8601 for information about the ISO-8601 format. Specifying DateTime would result in "Date and time with the offset" and Time results in everything after "T" in the same example.

In addition to this it is also possible to append milliseconds with :ms and remove all the seperators in the date and time with :no-sep.