Adding days to date message recieved using system time tcl

[Hannah Ndungu]

I am trying to add days to the day the message was received, using system time.  Any ideas on how to code for this?

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[Tipu Razaq]

<p>What do you mean? Are you trying to add more time to a date/time field in the message? </p>

[Hannah Ndungu]

Correct! Say date and time of message was 20200817142811. I would like to add 11 days to that using system time as opposed to MSH 7

[Tipu Razaq]

Here’s the TCL command. Takes your date/time, converts it to seconds, adds 11 days, converts it back to your desired date format of %Y%m%d%H%M%S (year, month, day, hour, minutes, seconds)

This is all assuming 24 hour clocks, not 12 hr

 

clock format [clock add [clock scan 20200817142811 -format %Y%m%d%H%M%S] 11 days] -format %Y%m%d%H%M%S

 

New date/time: 20200828142811

[Hannah Ndungu]

Thank you

[Vince Angulo]

I just tried this at the tcl prompt to get 3 days in the future, you can probably google better examples of clock scan to fit your exact needs:

clock format [clock scan “72 hours”] -format %Y%m%d%H%M%S
20200821122548

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Vince Angulo.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Vince Angulo.

[Hannah Ndungu]

Thank you

 

[Tipu Razaq]

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• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Tipu Razaq.

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