GetTime while backtesting

[FelixMMM]

Hi, in my strategy i need the date from today and i access it via "var time = DateTime.Today; ". Unfortunately when backtesting the strategy will always use the "real today" as the "time" and it wont use the actual date that is backtestet.

How can i get the DateTime from the current bar [0]?
it wont work like this:

"var date1 = new DateTime();
date1 = Time[0];
Print(date1);
"
Also while compiling there is no error. Only when i backtest the strategy there comes an error like that:
"The object reference was not set to an object instance"
Thanks for your help
Felix

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Felix,

The Time[0] series is a DateTime object for each bar.

Below is a link to the help guide.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/iseries_time.htm

[FelixMMM]

Thanks Chelsea,
i have tried it several times also in different ways.
Even the official example:
"Print(Time[0].ToString());" doesnt give an error when compiling.But when i backtest the strategy there comes this error in the output. "The object reference was not set to an object instance". And it comes only if i add that Print() to the OnBarUpdate Method.
I dont know what to do.
Thanks Felix

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello FelixMMM,

Are you certain that is the line causing the error?

Is that line of code in OnBarUpdate()?

Attached is an export of a simple script with only that line of code in OnBarUpdate().

Are you able to reproduce the behavior using this reduced test script to test only that code?

[FelixMMM]

Thanks Chelsea,
error is solved. I had the line inside a method that i was calling in Onbarupdate(). When i created a DateTime object inside the OnBarUpdate() method itself and hand over that object to the method i am calling inside OnBarUpdate() the error was gone. I dont know why but that doesnt matter now xD.
Thanks for your help, appreciate it
Felix