Timestamps - what am I missing?

[keresian]

I'm trying to set up File Transfer (via ftp if it matters, on a LAN, so encryption doesnt matter). Despite me trying to set the remote to image-{ts}.{ext}, what gets saved is a random string.jpg. How do I get it to actually use the timestamp?

[aaronwmorris]

The ts and timestamp variables are datetime variables. There is not a strftime() variable to get the unix timestamp string.

Because ts is a datetime object, you have to add the strftime() formats for the date.

You could use something like image-{ts:%Y%m%d_%H%M%S}.{ext}

[keresian]

Thanks Aaron, this along with some investigation figured out my issue. The timestamp was setting fine, but I was viewing the FTP'd files via a SMB share, and apparently it didnt like : and such in the filename. After I reformatted the name to be YYYYMMDD-HH_MM_SS, it started displaying the values correctly via the network share.

Thanks for the quick assist.