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Remote Time

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Remote Time

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Remote Time

Get the current time from WorldClock in a variety of formats

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: Remote Time

uses: Plabick/Remote-Time-Action@1.01

Learn more about this action in Plabick/Remote-Time-Action

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Remote Time

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A lightweight GitHub Action to get the current time from the WorldClock time server in a variety of formats. Get consistent times for status monitoring, timestamping, and more without worrying about inconsistencies between build agents.

Input

Name Description Required? Example
timezone The timezone code to display the current time in. Case insensitive. Defaults to utc (+0)' No EST

Output

Name Description Example
dateTime The current date and time 2021-05-30T18:38-04:00
dayOfTheWeek The day of the week Saturday
unixTime The Unix epoch time, the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970, rounded to the nearest second 1622410833
windowsTime The Windows FILETIME timestamp, the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since the beginning of the year 1601 132668721308032423
ordinalDate The current year and number of days since January 1st 2021-150
isDayLightSavingsTime A boolean describing if the requested time reflects daylight savings time false

Example Usage

- name: Get Time
  id: time
  uses: Plabick/Remote-Time-Action@V1.0
  with:
    timezone: 'EST'
  
- name: Display Unix Epoch Time
  run: 'echo "${{steps.time.outputs.epochTime}}"'