# ROBOT CLOCK (hours : minutes : seconds)

**URL:** <https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/robot-clock-hours-minutes-seconds/19434>\
**Category:** Technical Questions\
**Created:** [February 22, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/robot-clock-hours-minutes-seconds/19434 "2022-02-22T22:32:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![mikel.cinza](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.universal-robots.com/mikel.cinza/32/2457_2.png) [@mikel.cinza](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/mikel.cinza)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/robot-clock-hours-minutes-seconds/19434/1 "2022-02-22T22:32:21Z")

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Have you ever managed to acquire the system time of the robot so that you can enter it into variables?  
In this way, for example, perform a subtask at a certain time?

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**Author:** ![MikeM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.universal-robots.com/mikem/32/3114_2.png) [@MikeM](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/MikeM)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/robot-clock-hours-minutes-seconds/19434/2 "2022-02-23T00:06:00Z")

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So this is something that has been explored before, currently the only way to do it is use a python program, daemon, and urcap to create additional URscript functions to call within a program, check links below:

> [Get Controller Time](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/get-controller-time/18780)

> [URCap Sample: Get Controller Time in URScript](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/urcap-sample-get-controller-time-in-urscript/1256)

If someone from UR gets hold of this thread is this something you guys can integrate into next revision of Polyscope this topic has been brought up a few times now.