The node-red-contrib-simpletime does what its says on the packet and returns the current (DST corrected) time [image] Instead of writing my own boiler plate code to add hh:mm:ss to status/logging messages I'd thought I'd just use this node in the flow and just add in mytimes but I'm struggling to…

Does it matter? Or is it the clutter in the debug you don't like?

[image] Colin: Or is it the clutter in the debug you don't like? Yep As well as increasing message size unnecessarily I just feel there is an elegant NR way that I'm missing here :slight_smile: [edit] Also - I felt a good solution might have wider application for other things …

I could get my coding hat on and modify the node to have checkboxes and do a PR request to @paul-reed of course :slight_smile:

If you don't want to change the node or create your own function node that does what you want, you can create a subflow that contains two nodes, one node-red-contrib-simpletime and a function or change node which deletes all mesage properties you don't want to have. Then you also just have to insert…

[image] cinhcet: Or do you mean for manually writing things in a logfile? Yes for status on custom nodes /mqtt logging showing time of last message passing thru them [image] cinhcet: you can create a subflow that contains two nodes, one node-red-contrib-simpletime and a function or chang…

[image] cymplecy: I was hoping someone would know how to delete all my* properties (having 1st saved mytimes) without having to indiviudally delete them You COULD do the following: Take a function node and insert something like Object.keys(msg).forEach(function(key){ if(key.includes('my'…

Drat missed one off [image] fixed now [image]

There's some JSONata foo for this: Rather than deleting all the my... except mytimes in a change node, walk through the properties on the msg object and check if they start with my, and if so check if it is mytimes otherwise don't include it. With the $sift function you can step through the keys on…

I assume that you are adding simpletime just before another node which makes use of mytimes, maybe to construct an array or something? If so, could you not limit the flow to just the payload & topic downstream AFTER adding hh:mm:ss into the flow structure by creating a new msg object, such as; var…

[image] Paul-Reed: I assume that you are adding simpletime just before another node which makes use of mytimes I'm wanting to use mytimes on several node status further along in my flows and for logging nodes that log stuff to MQTT [image] [image] [edit] I don't want to pollute the mes…

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Easy way of adding only mytimes to a msg

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