System date/time within HAL

Hi together,
I am building a central lubrication system for my machine. The existing ones are mainly based on oil and hard-ways so run on a relatively fast cycle of min/ a few meters. See here www.forum.linuxcnc.org/49-basic-configur...-lube-time-component

My question is if there is a way to obtain the system date and time to build a function to run the lubrication e.g. once a week?

If there is a way to have the date in HAL I think its easy to build a routine with a written settings parameter of the last execution and and the digital input feedback from the SSV sensor.

Did you take a look at userspace python hal components? Using that you can create hal pins within a python program. As far as I know, you can easily import time and use it. It will just not be running in the realtime kernel. For a central lubrication system I doubt that would be a problem.