Current XXX versus actual XXX

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01/08/2023 at 10:00 PM #207086 quote
fj_pastor
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Hello and thanks,

I am coding an indicator and unfortunately is not possible to get the system time the moment you launch it.
When you use currentXXX (example current month, you get the month of the candle being displayed)
Is there a workaround for this (islastbarupdate is not a solution)

Thanks in advance
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01/08/2023 at 11:09 PM #207090 quote

JS
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Hi @fj_pastor

I don’t quite understand what you mean, just like with your indicator, everything is related to the price or the barindex…
When you use, for example; xMonth=Month[0] then you get the current month, xYear=Year[0] then you get the current year, and so on…

01/09/2023 at 12:35 AM #207091 quote
PeterSt
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fj_pastor probably means
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Once StartedTime = CurrentTime   // Once is only executed once. Thus at startup / launch of the Indicator, after that not any more.
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01/09/2023 at 7:04 PM #207129 quote
fj_pastor
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Hello, thanks to all

Let me explain myself:
If you write an indicator and you
want to perform something in the last candle but not before,
you have no chance to identify it.

Example. I want to draw something in the last candle after launching the indicator.

I you test today a candle which opens and closes in December you get in the indicator:
month returns 12
currentmonth returns 12

because currentmonth is referred to the candle, which is also the case for month.

What I am looking for is an instruction that returns the system date and time, 
not the candle the indicator is calculating.


Thanks
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01/09/2023 at 7:35 PM #207132 quote

robertogozzi
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@fj_pastor

you should use plain text (without formatting characters) when posting.

Thank you 🙂

01/09/2023 at 10:44 PM #207137 quote

fj_pastor
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Just trying.

By the way, do you have an idea to get the system date and time, not the candle time, when you are launching an indicator ?

Thanks in advance

01/10/2023 at 3:26 AM #207139 quote

robertogozzi
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No, I have never heard of any platform constant returning such info.

01/10/2023 at 5:39 AM #207142 quote

PeterSt
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No, that is not possible. But I cannot imagine that what you functionally want is not accomplishable.

So what do you actually want to do, functionally ? If you, for example, want to show the date/time of when you launched the platform this can easily be done. Or when you started the System (algo) can be done too (hard-code it). When you created the Indicator – same thing (hard-code it).
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Current XXX versus actual XXX

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