Get Current Day of the Month and Write to a tag

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How do you get the current day of the month and write it to a tag in a gateway script?
This is what I have so far

now = system.date.now()
dayOfMonth = system.date.getDayOfMonth(now)
system.tag.write("[default]CurrentDay")
2

This is setup to put out an integer. If your tag type is string remove the int()

today = system.date.now()
dayOfMonth = int(system.date.format(today, "dd"))
system.tag.write("[default]CurrentDay",dayOfMonth)
3

the value for the tag is still null.

4

what are you putting this script in?

today = system.date.now()
dayOfMonth = int(system.date.format(today, "dd"))
print dayOfMonth

If you put this in the script console it should print the number

5

this seems to be using system, make sure you have import system before the code maybe? Iā€™m not a jython expert, you can also import datetime

6

this worked

dayOfMonth = system.date.getDayOfMonth(system.date.now())
system.tag.write("[default]CurrentDay",dayOfMonth)
7

If this is on a timer script, it seems like a bit of running around the mulberry bush to get what could be done as an expression tag.

dateFormat(now(),'d')
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