Load Runner Function - How to get current system time

This function is developed to usein Mercury Load Runner peformance tool.

This main use of this functions to return the current system time at any given

point of time while load runner script is running.This functiona can be used to

report transaction times , script starti time and end time.

long get_secs_since_midnight(void)
{
char * curr_hr;         /* pointer to a parameter with current clock hr   */
char * curr_min;       /* pointer to a parameter with current clock min*/
char * curr_sec;       /* pointer to a parameter with current clock sec */
long current_time,     /* current number of seconds since midnight     */
       hr_secs,              /* current hour converted to secs                     */
       min_secs,            /* current minutes converted to secs                */
       secs_secs;           /* current number of seconds                          */

    curr_hr   = lr_eval_string("{current_hr}>");
    curr_min = lr_eval_string("{current_min}");
    curr_sec = lr_eval_string("{current_sec}");

hr_secs   = (atoi(curr_hr)) * 60 * 60;
    min_secs = (atoi(curr_min)) * 60;
    secs_secs = atoi(curr_sec);

current_time = hr_secs + min_secs + secs_secs;

return(current_time);
}

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pratheepa

Jan 16th, 2006

hi,
just two lines are enough for getting current time.
lr_save_datetime("Today is %H %M %S", DATE_NOW, "curr_time");
lr_output_message(lr_eval_string("{curr_time}"));

papayamilkshake
Profile Answers by papayamilkshake

Sep 11th, 2007

You can utilise the parameter value for "Date/Time" where Vugen can extract the date for you depending on the format you want. This is much simpler in writing codes.

-papayamilkshake

soori.p
Profile Answers by soori.p

Jun 3rd, 2008

typedef long time_t;
Action()
{
     time_t t;

lr_message("Time in seconds since 1/1/70: %ldn", time(&t));
     lr_message("Formatted time and date: %s", ctime(&t));
     return 0;
}

Monika

Dec 5th, 2014

%H behaves exactly like %I. for eg:

lr_save_datetime("%H%M%S", TIME_NOW + 5*ONE_HOUR, "curr_time");

should give output as 141500 (assuming Current time is 09:15:00) but the value of curr_time comes as 021500