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Date Time Helpers
What is Date Time Helpers Entity
The Date Time Helpers entity is a set of operations that can be used to manipulate and format dates and times.
Built-in operations in Date Time Helpers Entity
This topic describes the list of operations that can be performed on a Date Time Helpers entity in the Backflipt platform.
| Date Time Helpers Operation | Description |
|---|---|
| Get Current Timestamp | It can be used to return the current timestamp in string format. |
| Parse | It can be used to convert the date and time to the specified format. |
| Format | It can be used to convert the given date in the specified format for the prescribed time zone. |
| Add To Date | It can be used to add days, months, years, number of weeks, quarters, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds from a given Date Time. |
| Minus From Date | It can be used to subtract days, months, years, number of weeks, quarters, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds from a given Date Time. |
| Get Current Time in Millis | It can be used to convert the current date time to milliseconds. |
| Time in Millis for Date | It can be used to convert the given date time to milliseconds. |
| Wait | It can be used to delay the execution of workflow for a number of milliseconds. |
| Convert DateTime TimeZone | It can be used to convert the given date in the specified format for the prescribed time zone. |
| Fetch Time Remaining in Millis | It can be used to get the difference in time between the provided data and the data of flow execution in milliseconds. |
| Fetch Time Remaining in Seconds | It can be used to get the difference in time between the provided data and the data of flow execution in seconds. |
| Minus Two Dates | It can be used to get the time between two specific dates. |
| Minus from date with input format | It can be used to get the time difference between two dates in the format provided. |
| Add to Date with input format | It can be used to add the time to a provided date in the required format. |
| Time in Millis for date with input format | It can be used to get the time in milliseconds for a date in a provided format. |