From 368e7ac15e660a4e427ac77b9aad70d99771aeee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ad Schellevis <ad@opnsense.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 17:30:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] configd: Jinja helper function to show current iso timestamp
 in local timezone. closes https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/5341

At the moment further refactoring of the template code is likely not needed, let's keep the helper functions statically in template_helpers.py for now
---
 src/opnsense/service/modules/addons/template_helpers.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/opnsense/service/modules/addons/template_helpers.py b/src/opnsense/service/modules/addons/template_helpers.py
index 56ad905e7..a3fd46c19 100644
--- a/src/opnsense/service/modules/addons/template_helpers.py
+++ b/src/opnsense/service/modules/addons/template_helpers.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 """
 
 import os
+import datetime
 import glob
 import collections
 import netaddr
@@ -142,6 +143,13 @@ class Helpers(object):
         """
         return netaddr.IPNetwork(network)
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def getUtcTime():
+        """ return UTC timestamp in ISO 8601 format with second granularity
+            :return: string
+        """
+        return datetime.datetime.utcnow().astimezone().isoformat(timespec="seconds")
+
     @staticmethod
     def sortDictList(lst, *operators):
         if type(lst) == list: