Handling Local Time and Timestamp Persistence in Trading Scripts
Summary
This discussion asks why a displayed time may reflect the hosting machine’s clock and how to obtain local time instead. It also distinguishes a human-readable date string from a numeric timestamp, which can be useful when a program needs to store a time value for later recovery or manual entry.
The example records a date object in persistent global storage and retrieves it after a restart. However, the discussion does not provide a confirmed function for converting the clock to local time or for rendering the numeric timestamp. It is a narrow programming question rather than a trading method, and the answer would depend on the platform’s date and time conventions. Traders adapting the idea should verify the clock’s timezone and the expected timestamp units before using saved values in time-sensitive logic.
Key ideas
- A server-provided clock may use the host machine’s timezone rather than the trader’s local timezone.
- A readable date string and a numeric timestamp are different representations of a time value.
- Persistent storage can retain a date value for retrieval after a program restarts.
- The platform’s timezone behavior and timestamp units need to be confirmed before relying on stored times.
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