# TimeDate to Filename
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/timedate-to-filename/78201
**Category:** General
**Created:** [5 May 2023 07:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/timedate-to-filename/78201 "2023-05-05T07:26:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@docsfs](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/docsfs)
#### Post date: [5 May 2023 07:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/timedate-to-filename/78201/1 "2023-05-05T07:26:24Z")
Sorry i'm totally new to Node-Red. I find hundreds of topics to put the date/time into the file and append the file with every new protocol, but i need separate files.
How can i create a file with the date and time in the name.
I`ve got an lab-instrument which sends a protocol via serial port after each processing cycle.
Serial-in (node-red-node-serialport) is connected to write-file. That work so far, but how can i get a Filename with Date and Time in it to create a separate file for each protocol.
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### Author:  [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)
#### Post date: [5 May 2023 07:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/timedate-to-filename/78201/2 "2023-05-05T07:47:38Z")
Have you tried searching the [forum](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-name-for-every-picture/75089/3)
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### Author:  [@docsfs](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/docsfs)
#### Post date: [5 May 2023 08:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/timedate-to-filename/78201/3 "2023-05-05T08:10:45Z")
I`ve searched the forum and on google. But so far i find topics how to get a timestamp in the msg.payload or how to extract it from the the payload...
But i don't want to mess with the payload that's all fine as it is, i just need a separate unique filename for every protocol-event.
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### Author:  [@cameo69](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cameo69)
#### Post date: [5 May 2023 09:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/timedate-to-filename/78201/4 "2023-05-05T09:17:18Z")
I think the link that @E1cid provided with his rhetorical question could help. 😀
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [19 May 2023 09:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/timedate-to-filename/78201/5 "2023-05-19T09:17:30Z")
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