Dukascopy Support Board • View topic - How to get the server time and local machine time when a strategy is onStart?

blackkettle

Excuse me,

I am a beginner on JForex.

I have a few simple questions and wish you could kindly give me a hand.

Please tell me how to get the server time and local machine time when a strategy is onStart.

I used the example already in JForex-SDK and it runs like this:
"
2012-08-15 21:42:12.525 INFO Main - Starting strategy
Strategy "test_01" is started at 2012-08-16 02:12:16.307 GMT on the local computer with no parameters
"

I want to get the GMT time like "2012-08-16 02:12:16.307" in the example above.
I wonder what the time "2012-08-15 21:42:12.525 INFO" means.

Please enlighten me on this point.

Thank you so much!

API Support

blackkettle wrote:

I want to get the GMT time like "2012-08-16 02:12:16.307" in the example above.

See https://www.dukascopy.com/wiki/#IConsole/Logging_values

blackkettle wrote:

I wonder what the time "2012-08-15 21:42:12.525 INFO" means.

It is log4j logger timestamp, the format of which is determined by the rc\log4j.properties file. Read more on log4j here https://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/.

blackkettle

Thank you so much!

blackkettle

API Support wrote:

blackkettle wrote:

I want to get the GMT time like "2012-08-16 02:12:16.307" in the example above.

See https://www.dukascopy.com/wiki/#IConsole/Logging_values

blackkettle wrote:

I wonder what the time "2012-08-15 21:42:12.525 INFO" means.

It is log4j logger timestamp, the format of which is determined by the rc\log4j.properties file. Read more on log4j here https://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/.

By the way, could you please tell me how to get the local machine time?

It seems that the statement "Calendar.getInstance().getTime();" just get the time on the server side.

Thank you so much!

API Support

If strategy receives server time only if is run on LIVE client and in "remote run" mode.
Otherwise Calendar.getInstance().getTime(); returns time on your machine.
To correctly output time in your location you must change the time zone value in the following line:

setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));

Basically, you can use this function:

public String dateToStr(long time) {
      SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss") {
         {
            setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
         }
      };
      return sdf.format(time);
   }