Plabick/Remote-Time-Action

A lightweight tool to get the current time from a remote server. Easily get consistent timestamps for GitHub workflows in your preferred timezone and format.

Remote Time

A lightweight GitHub Action to get the current time from the WorldClock time server in a variety of formats. Get consistent times for status monitoring, timestamping, and more without worrying about inconsistencies between build agents.

Input

Name	Description	Required?	Example
timezone	The timezone code to display the current time in. Case insensitive. Defaults to utc (+0)'	No	EST

Output

Name	Description	Example
dateTime	The current date and time	2021-05-30T18:38-04:00
dayOfTheWeek	The day of the week	Saturday
unixTime	The Unix epoch time, the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970, rounded to the nearest second	1622410833
windowsTime	The Windows FILETIME timestamp, the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since the beginning of the year 1601	132668721308032423
ordinalDate	The current year and number of days since January 1st	2021-150
isDayLightSavingsTime	A boolean describing if the requested time reflects daylight savings time	false

Example Usage

- name: Get Time
  id: time
  uses: Plabick/Remote-Time-Action@V1.0
  with:
    timezone: 'EST'
  
- name: Display Unix Epoch Time
  run: 'echo "${{steps.time.outputs.epochTime}}"'