Instant Generator

The created instant represents a specific moment in time.

Default Instant format is ISO-8601 (Example value: 2023-02-03T13:34:46.094150Z) where Z indicates UTC.

Configuration

Note

Valve name: InstantGenerator

Properties

Name	Description	Default value	Mandatory	Expanded
dest	Property containing the created Instant.	N/A
dest_pattern	Instant pattern. ISO-8601 format	"yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.ffffffZ"
dest_tz	Instant time zone.	"UTC"
duration	Instant duration. ISO-8601 duration format PnDTnHnMn.nS

Example

{
    "name": "InstantGenerator",
    "config": {
        "dest": "instant",
        "dest_pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss",
        "dest_tz": "GMT-1",
        "duration": "+PT1H20M"
    }
}

Duration examples

"PT20.345S" -- parses as "20.345 seconds"
"PT15M"     -- parses as "15 minutes" (where a minute is 60 seconds)
"PT10H"     -- parses as "10 hours" (where an hour is 3600 seconds)
"P2D"       -- parses as "2 days" (where a day is 24 hours or 86400 seconds)
"P2DT3H4M"  -- parses as "2 days, 3 hours and 4 minutes"
"P-6H3M"    -- parses as "-6 hours and +3 minutes"
"-P6H3M"    -- parses as "-6 hours and -3 minutes"
"-P-6H+3M"  -- parses as "+6 hours and -3 minutes"
"+PT1H20M"  -- parses as "+1 hour and +20 minutes"