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How to get the current time as an environment variable in actions? #26342
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I hope to automatically create a new release through Actions and set the name to the current time, but I have failed many times. How can I do this? |
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Just like this |
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Assuming your build is running on Linux, you can just use the That’ll give you the current date in YYYY-MM-DD format, adjust the |
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It’s failed. Maybe my configuration is wrong? |
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It looks like you’re sending the date into
Workflow commands for GitHub Actions - GitHub Docs |
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You’ll likely need to wrap it in an expression syntax, otherwise it’ll just output as a string:
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All right.It’s now working. |
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It looks like you’re sending the date into
${TIME}instead of$GITHUB_ENV. To set an environment variable you need to send it to$GITHUB_ENVin the following format:echo "{name}={value}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
docs.github.comWorkflow commands for GitHub Actions - GitHub Docs