"A Time" Trigger Capture Help Needed

[Nige_S]

@Joel

When I create a Set Variable action using your formula in the macro with the later trigger time the action / formula does not works as it reports the trigger time of the earlier / first macro.

Apologies, @Joel -- I missed your exact wording in this earlier post. But it does tie in with my question to @mill-twice-0w

In brief:

• TRIGGERTIME() is the time when the currently executing Instance was triggered
• A "submacro" called synchronously with the "Execute a Macro" Action is part of the "parent's" executing Instance (shares Instance variables and so on) and so has the same TRIGGERTIME() as the "parent"
• A "submacro" called asynchronously with the "Execute a Macro" Action is not part of the "parent's" executing Instance (cannot access Instance variables) and has a different TRIGGERTIME()

The last is why @mill-twice-0w's demo works and doesn't get stuck in an endless pause.

I suspect you're calling the submacro synchronously, hence the shared TRIGGERTIME(). Use %ICUDateTime% in an early Action instead, at least in the submacro, to get round that.