Suggestion for MarketScope

[robocod]

[[Hi, not sure what the best forum for this was. Please feel free to move it to a better place.]]

It would be useful to have an option to allow entry of dates and times, e.g. indicator.parameters.addDate(...), or possibly it is a flag that is applied to a string, e.g. indicator.parameters:setFlag("startDate", core.FLAG_DATE_TIME) or similar.

I'm currently using a string parameter and then some simple pattern matching. Like this...

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    if #instance.parameters.date > 0 then
        local _, _, yyyy, mm, dd = string.find(instance.parameters.date, "(%d+)/(%d+)/(%d+)");
        refDate = core.date(yyyy, mm, dd);
    else
        refDate = 0;
    end

Which works fine. I use YYYY/MM/DD format here as it simple. Having to support localized date / time formats gets tricky, so having it built into the SDK would be really useful.

Many thanks.

[sunshine]

Thank you for your suggestion. I've added your suggestion to our "Wishlist".

[robocod]

Additionally, ideally the date/time should be aligned with the the date/time that MarketScope uses, i.e. server time, local time, exchange time, etc. Either using the same settings as MarketScope, or by additional flag which can be specified as another parameter.