time actions

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#1

I need an action in automator that will derive military time and paste it into the clipboard. I have been trying to figure this out for awhile. Any help out there?

#2

Hi,

Add an Applescript action to your Automator workflow and add in the following line:

set the clipboard to (do shell script "date '+%H:%M'")

The action should look something like this:

on run {input, parameters}
	
set the clipboard to (do shell script "date '+%H:%M'")
	
	return input
end run

Best wishes

John M

#3

There even is a “Run Shell Script”- and “Copy to Clipboard”-action

#4

Hey, thanks guys this worked great! I found out for myself how to add on a “seconds” column onto the date string.

Just one more question from a noob. Is there any way I can add on two more digits at the end of this string to represent fractions of a second? I need it for video which has 30 frames/second. It would be great if I could get this script to output a time like this as follows:

13:53:14:10

Which translates to one o’clock (military time) : fifty three minutes : fourteen seconds and :ten frames.

Thanks again for the help!

I visited your web site, very cool! You are doing really cool stuff, keep up the great work!

Thanks again,

Roger