Text const to a timestamp

[LED47]

Is there a way to do the following

From text constant and convert that directly into a timestamp that I can use for the X axis for a graph?

[raphschru · Accepted solution]

Hi LED47,

Use "Scan From String" with a timestamp format specifier:

When parsing only a date (without time), LabVIEW adds 1 hour for some reason, so if you want midnight (start of the day), just add a zero for the hours.

Question: Are you sure your input will only contain the date, and not also the time (such as for example "8:45:12.123")?

Parsing a date-only string as a timestamp and using it for the X axis of a graph seems very unusual.

Regards,

Raphaël.

[Bob_Schor · Accepted solution]

Kudos to @raphschru!

Yes, the peculiarity of dealing with TimeStamps in "Human-readable Formats" drove me crazy when I tried to record EEG-like signals in a study a decade or so ago.

Unfortunately, I don't have the code handy to see how I managed to get things working.  I do remember being at an NI Week meeting with my laptop, and noticing my test runs were 1 hour off -- I happened to be at NI Week (so you know it's at least 6-8 years ago), and forgot that Texas is in a different time zone from where the data were acquired, so the "hours" were off by one.

Bob Schor

[LED47]

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