Assign a value to a variable without using SQL Task

Greetings once again,

I am trying to achieve a seemingly simple task of assigning datetime value to a user variable at the point my package starts running. How can I do this without using a SQL Script Task? Should I be using a script task for this or is there a simpler way to achieving the same thing?

Thanks in advance.

There are a couple System variable that might have have what you are looking for: StartTime and ContainerStartTime. To see them go to variables and click in the gray icon with the X.|||

Hi Rafael,

Yes thank you. I am now using the System variable StartTime which is the start time of the package when it's run.

That's perfect!