How to find out the current Timeframe programmatically?

• 08/14/2018 at 9:37 AM #78130
  Vagus_Lux

  Is there any code or instruction to find out the current time frame programmatically to use this information in an indicator? I tried to subtract the timestamps of two consecutive bars but the answer is variing and is therfore not inspiring confidence.

  

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  08/14/2018 at 12:35 PM #78141
  Nicolas

  You can use the code snippet found in this post: https://www.prorealcode.com/topic/chart-timeframe-detection-in-an-indicator/#post-63681

  Also discussed here: https://www.prorealcode.com/topic/how-to-get-current-timeframe-inside-indicator-code/

   

  

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