New to Ignition, trying to get a handle on Scripting. First thing I tried in the interactive script tester:
import datetime
system.db.dateFormat(now(), “MMM d, h:mm a”)
says now is not defined…What am I missing?
The function now() only exists in expression binding. You have to do this:from java.util import Date
print system.db.dateFormat(Date(), "MMM d, h:mm a")
A couple things.
First, to access that now() function, you would use:
import datetime
datetime.datetime.now()Second, system.db.dateFormat() requires a java.util.Date object, not a Python datetime object. You can format the datetime object using docs.python.org/library/datetime … e.strftime
- OR -
Go with what Travis did 
Hi there!
Now that I’ve used it for a while, I tend to use the java.util.calendar object if I need a now() kind of function in a script:
from java.util import Calendar
x=Calendar.getInstance()
print x.time
print system.db.dateFormat(x.time, "MMM d, h:mm a")
Or go with what Travis did… 
That information is helpful. Thank you. The scripting examples in the Ignition help need some more detail. Thanks again