[jmeter] Jmeter - get current date and time

I want to get the current date and time as example date: 11/10/2014 and time 8:30 am or 6:00 pm and pass it as parameters to my Jmeter test. Can some help me do this.

Use this format: ${__time(yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ss.SS'Z')}

Which will give you: 2018-01-16T08:32:28.75Z

JMeter is using java SimpleDateFormat

For UTC with timezone use this

${__time(yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ssX)}

Use ${__time(yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ss)} to convert time into a particular timeformat. Here are other formats that you can use:

yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss.SSS
yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss
yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS
yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss
MM/dd/yy HH:mm:ss

You can use Z character to get milliseconds too. For example:

yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ssZ => 2017-01-25T10:29:00-0700
yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z' => 2017-01-25T10:28:49.549Z

Most of the time yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z' is required in some APIs. It is better to know how to convert time into this format.

it seems to be the java SimpleDateFormat : http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

here are some tests i did around 11:30pm on the 20th of May 2015

${__time(dd-mmm-yyyy HHmmss)} 20-032-2015 233224
${__time(d-MMM-yyyy hhmmss)}  20-May-2015 113224
${__time(dd-m-yyyy hhmmss)}   20-32-2015 113224
${__time(D-M-yyyy hhmmss)}    140-5-2015 113224
${__time(DD-MM-yyyy)}         140-05-2015

Use __time function:

• ${__time(dd/MM/yyyy,)}

• ${__time(hh:mm a,)}

Since JMeter 3.3, there are two new functions that let you compute a time:

__timeShift

  "The timeShift function returns a date in the given format with the specified amount of seconds, minutes, hours, days or months added" and 

__RandomDate

  "The RandomDate function returns a random date that lies between the given start date and end date values." 

Since JMeter 4.0:

dateTimeConvert

Convert a date or time from source to target format

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Actually, for UTC I used Z instead of X, e.g.

${__time(yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ssZ)}

which gave me:

2017-09-14T09:24:54-0400