Staffthere is an aqDateTime object that can get the dates and times, but I'm not too sure if there are inbuilt methods to specify a timezone. Either way i think you could use something like aqDateTime.now to get the times, and then use aqDateTime.AddHours to add/subtract however many hours it would take to get to the desired time zone
Thank you.
We have employees in different Time Zones. But the desired result for Time zone is in CST. So subtracting and adding would not help.
Is there a direct way to get current CST time?
Staffno, not with aqdatetime.
if you can find a reliable, free API that gives you current time at a specified timezone, then you could use the aqHttp object and do a get request.
then you'd most likely have to save the response body as a variable and then pull the proper key value pairs to output the time
Stafffor example, using the free api at http://api.timezonedb.com, I created a free account to access the current time in Chicago, the below stub is in Python, but the methods used will be available in vbscript as well at https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/program-objects/aqhttp/creategetrequest.html
def get_CST():
address = "http://api.timezonedb.com/v2.1/get-time-zone?key=YOUR_API_KEY&format=json&by=zone&zone=America/Chicago"
# Create an aqHttpRequest object
aqHttpRequest = aqHttp.CreateGetRequest(address)
# Send the request, get an aqHttpResponse object
aqHttpResponse = aqHttpRequest.Send()
if aqHttpResponse != None:
# Read the response data
Log.Message(aqHttpResponse.Text) # A response body
df = aqHttpResponse.Text #in as a str
date = df[-21:-2] #get daterange
Log.Message(date) #log a message of current CST date
return date #output date
# Save the response body to a file and place it to the project folder
#aqHttpResponse.SaveToFile(Project.Path + "body.txt")
and the following logs of running this routine:
