|
|
timestamp Function
timestamp
returns a UTC timestamp string in
RFC 3339
format.
In the Terraform language, timestamps are conventionally represented as
strings using
RFC 3339
"Date and Time format" syntax, and so
timestamp
returns a string
in this format.
The result of this function will change every second, so using this function
directly with resource attributes will cause a diff to be detected on every
Terraform run. We do not recommend using this function in resource attributes,
but in rare cases it can be used in conjunction with
the
ignore_changes
lifecycle meta-argument
to take the timestamp only on initial creation of the resource. For more stable
time handling, see the
Time Provider
.
Due to the constantly changing return value, the result of this function cannot