PINE LIBRARY
Timing and Sessions backend framework
Timing_Library — Timing Utilities (Pine v6)
Purpose
A lightweight timing toolkit for indicator development. It parses session strings, returns start/stop timestamps for the current day, and resolves a UTC offset for common TradingView time zones. The library itself does not draw, alert, or place trades and must be called by a parent indicator.
Core Functions
- extractHourMinute(sessionInput): Parses "HHMM" into [hour, minute].
- ExtractStartStopTimestamp(sessionInput): Accepts "HHMM-HHMM" and returns [sessionStartTime, sessionEndTime] for the current date.
- GetUTCOffset(): Maps syminfo.timezone to an integer UTC offset (hours), with fallback parsing for UTC± patterns.
Key Notes
- Backend-only helper library: no signals, no alerts, no order execution.
- Designed for educational, research, and indicator-development purposes.
- No external data requests and no user data handling.
- Time zone handling is best-effort; behavior may vary with regional DST rules.
Usage
1) Import this library into your indicator.
2) Provide session inputs like "0930-1030" to ExtractStartStopTimestamp for same-day timestamps.
3) Use GetUTCOffset to align session logic or convert between local and exchange time where needed. Visualization and alerting remain in the parent script.
Disclaimer
This library does not provide financial advice, trade recommendations, or performance guarantees. Use at your own risk for research and educational development only.
Purpose
A lightweight timing toolkit for indicator development. It parses session strings, returns start/stop timestamps for the current day, and resolves a UTC offset for common TradingView time zones. The library itself does not draw, alert, or place trades and must be called by a parent indicator.
Core Functions
- extractHourMinute(sessionInput): Parses "HHMM" into [hour, minute].
- ExtractStartStopTimestamp(sessionInput): Accepts "HHMM-HHMM" and returns [sessionStartTime, sessionEndTime] for the current date.
- GetUTCOffset(): Maps syminfo.timezone to an integer UTC offset (hours), with fallback parsing for UTC± patterns.
Key Notes
- Backend-only helper library: no signals, no alerts, no order execution.
- Designed for educational, research, and indicator-development purposes.
- No external data requests and no user data handling.
- Time zone handling is best-effort; behavior may vary with regional DST rules.
Usage
1) Import this library into your indicator.
2) Provide session inputs like "0930-1030" to ExtractStartStopTimestamp for same-day timestamps.
3) Use GetUTCOffset to align session logic or convert between local and exchange time where needed. Visualization and alerting remain in the parent script.
Disclaimer
This library does not provide financial advice, trade recommendations, or performance guarantees. Use at your own risk for research and educational development only.
Pine library
In true TradingView spirit, the author has published this Pine code as an open-source library so that other Pine programmers from our community can reuse it. Cheers to the author! You may use this library privately or in other open-source publications, but reuse of this code in publications is governed by House Rules.
Disclaimer
The information and publications are not meant to be, and do not constitute, financial, investment, trading, or other types of advice or recommendations supplied or endorsed by TradingView. Read more in the Terms of Use.
Pine library
In true TradingView spirit, the author has published this Pine code as an open-source library so that other Pine programmers from our community can reuse it. Cheers to the author! You may use this library privately or in other open-source publications, but reuse of this code in publications is governed by House Rules.
Disclaimer
The information and publications are not meant to be, and do not constitute, financial, investment, trading, or other types of advice or recommendations supplied or endorsed by TradingView. Read more in the Terms of Use.