asterisk users - Dec 2006 - What's up with DATETIME and TIMESTAMP in Asterisk 1.4beta3 ?

Hello,

In Asterisk 1.4 beta 3, the UPGRADE.txt file says:

Variables:
* The builtin variables ${CALLERID}, ${CALLERIDNAME}, ${CALLERIDNUM},
  ${CALLERANI}, ${DNID}, ${RDNIS}, ${DATETIME}, ${TIMESTAMP}, 
${ACCOUNTCODE},
  and ${LANGUAGE} have all been deprecated in favor of their related 
dialplan
  functions.  You are encouraged to move towards the associated dialplan
  function, as these variables will be removed in a future release.

However, neither the function or application for either of TIMESTAMP or 
DATETIME seems to work in 1.4beta3...

exten => *333,1,NoOp(DATETIME() : ${DATETIME()})
exten => *333,n,NoOp(DATETIME : ${DATETIME})
exten => *333,n,NoOp(TIMESTAMP() : ${TIMESTAMP()})
exten => *333,n,NoOp(TIMESTAMP : ${TIMESTAMP})

Asterisk 1.2.9.1:
-----------------

Dec 15 12:56:26 ERROR[26373]: pbx.c:1383 ast_func_read: Function 
DATETIME not registered
    -- Executing NoOp("<channel>", "DATETIME() : 0")
in new stack
    -- Executing NoOp("<channel>", "DATETIME :
20061215-12:56:26") in
new stack
Dec 15 12:56:26 ERROR[26373]: pbx.c:1383 ast_func_read: Function 
TIMESTAMP not registered
    -- Executing NoOp("<channel>", "TIMESTAMP() : 0")
in new stack
    -- Executing NoOp("<channel>", "TIMESTAMP :
20061215-125626") in new
stack


Asterisk 1.4.0-beta3:
---------------------

[Dec 15 13:59:52] ERROR[28236]: pbx.c:1497 ast_func_read: Function 
DATETIME not registered
    -- Executing [*333@<context>:1] NoOp("<channel>",
"DATETIME() : ")
in new stack
    -- Executing [*333@<context>:2] NoOp("<channel>",
"DATETIME : ") in
new stack
[Dec 15 13:59:52] ERROR[28236]: pbx.c:1497 ast_func_read: Function 
TIMESTAMP not registered
    -- Executing [*333@<context>:3] NoOp("<channel>",
"TIMESTAMP() : ")
in new stack
    -- Executing [*333@<context>:4] NoOp("<channel>",
"TIMESTAMP : ") in
new stack


Any ideas?

Thanks,
Alvin

Am Freitag, den 15.12.2006, 13:08 -0600 schrieb Alvin
Austin:
> Hello,
> 
> In Asterisk 1.4 beta 3, the UPGRADE.txt file says:
> 
> Variables:
> * The builtin variables ${CALLERID}, ${CALLERIDNAME}, ${CALLERIDNUM},
>   ${CALLERANI}, ${DNID}, ${RDNIS}, ${DATETIME}, ${TIMESTAMP}, 
> ${ACCOUNTCODE},
>   and ${LANGUAGE} have all been deprecated in favor of their related 
> dialplan
>   functions.  You are encouraged to move towards the associated dialplan
>   function, as these variables will be removed in a future release.
> 
> However, neither the function or application for either of TIMESTAMP or 
> DATETIME seems to work in 1.4beta3...
> 
> exten => *333,1,NoOp(DATETIME() : ${DATETIME()})
> exten => *333,n,NoOp(DATETIME : ${DATETIME})
> exten => *333,n,NoOp(TIMESTAMP() : ${TIMESTAMP()})
> exten => *333,n,NoOp(TIMESTAMP : ${TIMESTAMP})
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+func+strftime

will probably contain the information you want. To sum up, DATETIME and
TIMESTAMP are gone, use the ${EPOCH} for the seconds since
1970-01-01,00:00:00 and the STRFTIME to format that data.
STRPTIME can be used to calculate the epoch value of any
date-time-string.

HTH
Anselm