Cannot get system date. My input format is %Y%m%d and the output is also a format 'YYYYMMDD'?

[JÞB · Accepted solution]

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@altenbach wrote:
Jeff, he does not get any numerical output, just letters, if I understood right.

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If that is the case something broke and badly since even if the format specifiers stopped being recognized the function should return the chararter litteral as in "Y" not "YYYY"

It would probably be better to use the more robust scan into string

 

A shake of my magic 8-Ball gives me an strange thought that the LabVIEW version and / or the VS Version are not "English" localized. since format date/time string has some unusual system dependancies.

[billko]

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@JÞB wrote:

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@altenbach wrote:
Jeff, he does not get any numerical output, just letters, if I understood right.

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If that is the case something broke and badly since even if the format specifiers stopped being recognized the function should return the chararter litteral as in "Y" not "YYYY"

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A shake of my magic 8-Ball gives me an strange thought that the LabVIEW version and / or the VS Version are not "English" localized. since format date/time string has some unusual system dependancies.

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I was kind of thinking about that, too.  I was hoping that looking at the timestamp control advanced properties would give us a clue as to what it was expecting as a format string.

[Cloud05]

Yes altenbach. I got string "YYYYMMDD".

I notice that there are abnormalities too on setting TimeStamp Date/Time to Now by clicking 'Set Time to Now' (see attached file). Clicking the button has no any reaction and seems it cannot find current date/time.

[Cloud05]

Here's the advanced settings of Time Stamp billko.

[billko]

I'm stumped.  I'd call that a workaround rather than a fix.  I hope it doesn't manifest itself in some other subtle way, too.

[JÞB]

And that would be the trouble circled in blue.  No system timezone.  Is that a "Genuine Windows" install?

[Cloud05]

Yes this is Genuine Windows.. Jeff·Þ·Bohrer how can I fix this time zone issue?

[JÞB]

On my Windows 7 PC Taipei Standard time is handled fine.  Perhaps there is a missing OS patch on the problem system. or a registry entry corupted

Windows DST patches are available here