How to print current datetime every time the schedule ran?

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Hi guys, my organization just started working with temporal. I have this problem and I don’t know how to solve it.

dt_string = datetime.now().strftime("%Y_%m_%d_%H%M%S")


async def main():
    client = await Client.connect("localhost:7233")
    await client.create_schedule(
        "workflow-schedule-id",
        Schedule(
            action=ScheduleActionStartWorkflow(
                YourSchedulesWorkflow.run,
                dt_string,
                id="schedules-workflow-id",
                task_queue="schedules-task-queue",
            ),
            spec=ScheduleSpec(
                intervals=[ScheduleIntervalSpec(every=timedelta(minutes=2))]
            ),
            state=ScheduleState(note="Here's a note on my Schedule."),
        ),
    )


if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

I want to print current datetime in this “%Y_%m_%d_%H%M%S” format. But every time the workflow ran, it just prints out the first instance of datetime it ran like shown below. How can I print current datetime every time the schedule ran?

2

I just realized this was asked here and in Slack at the same time and was answered in Slack. The answer was that you are passing a fixed date as the workflow param. If you want per workflow execution times, inside the workflow you can use workflow.now(), one of the datetime properties of workflow.info(), or the TemporalScheduledStartTime search attribute.