Tidal Enterprise Orchestrator: Compare Timestamps

Introduction

This document describes how to compare timestamps when performing your own custom process authoring.

Prerequisites

Requirements

Cisco recommends that you have knowledge of these topics:

• Tidal Enterprise Orchestrator (TEO)

• General Content Authoring or Programming

Components Used

The information in this document is based on TEO.

The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command.

Conventions

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Compare Dates and Times

In TEO 2.2 or Later

There is an activity called Calculate Date Time Difference which takes in a date and a subtracted date. It is preferred to use this activity in your content authoring.

In TEO 2.1.x or Earlier

Complete these steps:

1. Use the actual date/time variable type and not the string. You can confirm that it is the correct variable type as it will have a calendar type icon when selected. For example, Process.Start Time and Process.End Time.

2. If you have a configured date/time, run it through the parse date activity to turn it from a string into a date/time variable. Once complete, you can compare it to another date/time variable.

3. In order to verify the date/time variable, put it into your comparison and you should see a standard numeric type comparison operator, such as <, >, or =.

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