fractional seconds with digital presision?

[ssteel]

Im trying to use Get Date/Time In Seconds.vi in conjunction with Format Date/Time String.vi to get tyhe precision fratcional seconds. From the context help Im trying to use the %<digit>u, but it just wont work, I can use %Y and get the year or even %S to get regular seconds but not fractional seconds?

Cheers,

Sam 

[Norbert_B]

Sam,

use Seconds to Date/Time in order to retrieve the fractional seconds. 

hope this helps,

Norbert 

[ssteel]

I have had a look at the Seconds to Date/Time.vi but I cant work out how to get what the individual parts of the date and time outputted. In the context help it has a sublist of date time rec, including fractional seconds, how do I get that out? I, not sure what the help is telling me?

Cheers 

[Norbert_B · Accepted solution]

Sam,

you can create an indicator of the output of Seconds to Date/Time by rightclicking on the output terminal and select "create >> indicator". Run the VI once in order to update the indicator.

The indicator will have different "sections" with different information. The first one would be "fractional seconds". You can extract this component using the Unbundle by Name primitive found in the cluster palette.

hope this helps,

Norbert

PS: Maybe you should spend some time to accomplish this tutorials.

[ssteel]

I just stuck an indicator on the end of the vi, it makes sense now. But how do I split the out going cluster up, so that I can get the information I want?

[PhillipBrooks]

Here is an example using %5u. It works for me (LabVIEW 7.0)

Try this format string to start: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%5u

Message Edited by Phillip Brooks on 08-25-2009 09:36 AM