LabVIEW
Turning a pink or red line into an orange line
@Falcon9a wrote:
the pic I have up there now only records the first digit
That's because the second thing in the string is not a number, it can't convert it.
Why don't you use Present (s) which is already orange, I mean a DBL?
@Falcon9a wrote:
That's just silly and a waste of code. Do what I said about using the correct output of the function since you do not know how to do the conversion and doing the conversion is, as I said, silly.
Dennis: The Elapsed Time output isn't going to give him the Date, which we wants.
The OP could log all of his data as strings, that way Time, Date, PM, AM etc can be logged 
No more pink to black converters.
Jeff: that's what I said.
So as I said, you can convert those two data points to strings, then just wire up Present Text straight to the Build Array. (The write VI is Polymorphic, it'll take numbers or text).
According to the way your VI is written, it may look like this.....
No silly Express VI
@Falcon9a wrote:
The numbers that my program record have to be compared to a separate recording, I figured it would be good to at least know how to make a present time text recording since they might not use the present (s) convention to record their data.
No problemo! changing a timestamp scale and epoch is kitty play---- for instance if you want a LabVIEW time stamp to be a dbl that Excel (or any MS Office product) uses just use this-
Its been in the code shareing area for years.
If you need another format (scale/epoch) it's pretty easy to do once you know the details
