feat(helpers): added a new category of workflow functions called help…

…ers to provide common utililites in the pipelines framework

added workflow.helpers.date.get functionality

workflow/helpers/date.py

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+"""Helper functions for working with dates and times."""
+
+from datetime import datetime
+from typing import Dict
+
+
+def get(format: str) -> Dict[str, str]:
+    """Get the current date and time in the specified format.
+
+    Args:
+        format (str): The format to return the date and time in.
+
+    Example:
+        from workflow.helpers import date
+        date.get("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
+
+    Returns:
+        str: The current date and time.
+    """
+    date = datetime.now().strftime(format)
+    results: Dict[str, str] = {"output": date}
+    return results
+
+
+def get_ctime() -> Dict[str, float]:
+    """Get the current time in seconds since the epoch.
+
+    Returns:
+        float: The current time in seconds since the epoch.
+    """
+    ctime: float = datetime.now().timestamp()
+    results: Dict[str, float] = {"output": ctime}
+    return results