I’m debugging a contract and the global LatestTimestamp instruction is putting 0 on the stack. Does anyone know a reason for this? I’m running against a private node

I have discovered you can set a latestTimestamp field on the JavaScript SDK’s createDryRun method. This seems to do the trick. (the below uses the getUnixTime function from the date-fns library) const dryRun = await algosdk.createDryrun({ client: algodClient, txns, latestTimestamp: g…

Just a guess : maybe that’s a limitation of dryrun, and it would work cirrectly on mainnet ?

“No way to debug” is a pretty strong statement. Don’t you think so ? How’s about sending transactions to testnet, and examining the blocks, or even better - using local private network, or a sandbox ?

That is not a replacement for debugging. I am already using a private sandbox. If I am using tealdbg to debug my contract, and some of that relies on checking that global LatestTimestamp is greater or less than a stored unix timestamp value, I have to comment it out to get the code following it to e…

@casper , yes I know that the tealdbg is a great tool for debugging. I just wanted to make sure you’re aware of other means to verify the correctness of your smart contract. Would it be better if it was “just working” ? Probably. I think that what you’re after is not a dryrun debugger ( tealdbg ) …

Thanks @tsachi . I had hoped that the global LatestTimestamp would be available, taken as a snapshot at the time of the dryrun txn

Is there another way to get/set latest timestamp in sandbox node? For example the last marked solution using dryRun give me the possibility with a certain functionality, but if I’m configuring a test cases in beaker for example, it comes to fail in the next validations.

Welcome to Algorand ! After discussing with the team, it looks like the best options right now are: use dryRun if you can otherwise, replace the timestamp check logic by some logic that does not have that issue for testing, or design it to work with with sandbox

`global LatestTimestamp` is 0 in when debugging from dryrun txn

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casper February 26, 2022, 4:16am 3

Does that mean there’s no way to debug timestamp-related logic?

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`global LatestTimestamp` is 0 in when debugging from dryrun txn

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