Format DateTime in frontail/rules

[rossko57]

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Which look like :

Item 'openHAB_StartTime' received command 2019-11-13T17:37:12.897-0600

Well, it’s only a log file - that would be good enough for me.

There are examples of formatting DateTime states to string here in this Tutorials & Example post

DateTime Conversion (openHAB 2.x)

Because openHAB 3.x rules now use Java Time API instead of Jodatime, there is a new DateTime Conversion thread for openHAB 3.x. Overview In openHab 2.x there are different ways to handle Date/Time values. DateTimeType A DateTime Item carries a DateTimeType. Joda DateTime By default openHAB 2.x-Rules use a Joda DateTime class to represent time, most notably now. Epoch The lowest common denominator when working with time is to get at the epoc value. Epoc is the number of milliseconds …