Is there a function to record time stamp with user input?

[EcoliTalk]

Hello all,

I am new to Labview. I have a question regard a particular function that I hope Labview can do and hope someone can help me out.

Our group started to use Labview about two years ago. We use it to record a counter every second. We challenge our sample with chemicals and record the changes in real time. We have been recording the event (chemical flow start and end) time manually. But I think that Labview should be able to record it if we input by clicking a button to indicate when to record a time stamp. Is there a way to do that? I hope I explained our situation and purposes clearly.

Any help is much appreciated.

By the way, our LabView is 2010 version.

[crossrulz]

If you are reacting to a button press, you want to use an event structure.

[Arvel]

Use an event structure that handles the value changed event of your start button.
In this structure you might place a "Get Date/Time In Seconds" functions. This will give you the time stamp at the time you start your test.