Need an API to get the current local time

[madhukaw]

Description:
ATM, time module has an API to get the current UTC time but not the current local time. However, in log module the current local time is printed in log messages. Since there is no Ballerina API to get the current local time, a Java native function[1] is being used as a workaround. It would be better if there was a Ballerina API this since we are planning to remove all Java native code from log module.

[1] https://github.com/ballerina-platform/module-ballerina-log/blob/master/native/src/main/java/io/ballerina/stdlib/log/Utils.java#L59

[BuddhiWathsala]

This issue is resolved with this fix ballerina-platform/module-ballerina-time#337.

You can use the following sample to obtain the current local time.

import ballerina/time;

public function main() returns error? {

    time:Zone systemZone = check time:loadSystemZone();
    time:Civil currentSystemCivil = systemZone.utcToCivil(time:utcNow());
}