In Tsung, I want publish message time in milisec, I tried below but able to get time in Sec only.
<setdynvars sourcetype="eval" code='fun({Pid,DynVars})->
{{Year,Month,Day},{Hour,Minute,Second}} = erlang:localtime(),
io_lib:format('~4..0B-~2..0B-~2..0B::~2..0B:~2..0B:~4..0B\n', [Year,Month,Day,Hour,Minute,Second]) end.'>
<var name="time" />
</setdynvars>
<request subst="true">
<mqtt type="publish" topic="xxx" qos="0" retained="true">%%_time%%</mqtt>
</request>
you can use
1> Time_milli = fun() ->
Um = erlang:system_time(milli_seconds),
{D,T} = calendar:gregorian_seconds_to_datetime(Um div 1000 + 719528*86400)
{D,T,Um rem 1000}
end.
#Fun<erl_eval.20.54118792>
2> Time_milli().
{{2015,12,9},{8,13,53},40}
The value 719528*86400
is the number of seconds between the 1 1 1 at 0 0 0 and the 1970 1 1 at 0 0 0.
Note: the system_time is not monotonic, if you need this feature you can use erlang:monotonic_time/1, but in this case you cannot convert to a date or compare between different nodes.