Jmeter - get current date and time

Question

I want to get the current date and time as example date: 11/10/2014 and time 8:30 am or 6:00 pm and pass it as parameters to my Jmeter test. Can some help me do this.

Answer 1

Use __time function:

• ${__time(dd/MM/yyyy,)}

• ${__time(hh:mm a,)}

Since JMeter 3.3, there are two new functions that let you compute a time:

__timeShift

  "The timeShift function returns a date in the given format with the specified amount of seconds, minutes, hours, days or months added" and  

__RandomDate

  "The RandomDate function returns a random date that lies between the given start date and end date values."  

Since JMeter 4.0:

dateTimeConvert

Convert a date or time from source to target format 

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