Current XXX versus actual XXX

• 01/08/2023 at 10:00 PM #207086
  fj_pastor

  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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  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
  JS

  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…

  

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  01/09/2023 at 12:35 AM #207091
  PeterSt

  fj_pastor probably means

  Once StartedTime = CurrentTime // Once is only executed once. Thus at startup / launch of the Indicator, after that not any more.

  1	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
  fj_pastor

  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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  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
  robertogozzi

  @fj_pastor

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

  Thank you 🙂

   

   

  

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

  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

  

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

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

   

  

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

  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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