Citrix Systems 9.2 manual Format of Dates and Times in an Expression

96 Citrix NetScaler Policy Configuration and Reference Guide

Note: Numeric operations are also covered in “Compound Operations for

Numbers,” on page 48 and “Advanced Expressions: Parsing HTTP, TCP, and

UDP Data,” on page 113.

Format of Dates and Times in an Expression

When configuring an advanced expression in a policy that works with dates and times, for example, the NetScaler system time or a date in an SSL certificate, you specify a time format as follows:

GMTLOCAL [yyyy] [month] [d] [h] [m] [s]

Where:

•yyyy is a four-digit year after GMT or LOCAL.

•month is a three-character abbreviation for the month, for example, Jan,

Dec.

•d is a day of the week or an integer for the date.

You cannot specify the day as Monday, Tuesday, and so on. You specify either an integer for a specific day of the month, or you specify a date as the first, second, third weekday of the month, and so on. Following are examples of specifying a day of the week:

•Sun_1 is the first Sunday of the month.

•Sun_3 is the third Sunday of the month.

•Wed_3 is the third Wednesday of the month.

•30 is an example of an exact date in a month.

•h is the hour, for example, 10h.

•s is the number of seconds, for example, 30s.

The following example expression is TRUE if the time is between10:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. local time, as determined from the time zone setting on the NetScaler. (Note that not all local time zones are supported.):

http.req.date.between(GMT 2008 Jan, GMT 2009 Jan)

The following example expression is TRUE for March and all months that follow March in the calendar year, based on GMT time:

sys.time.ge(GMT 2008 Mar)