Printing year on alarm logging printer

[Davidd]

OK, in spite of limitations of Lookout, I'm about to have my alarm Logging system ready.... and AGAIN, Lookout it 'almost there' but not completely.

This one, I'm sure is just something I've got configured wrong, though.

I'm spooling the Alarms out the COM1 port.  I capture those alarms with a program I wrote that runs on my Linux box.  Everything is great, except... the date prints only as month/day - I don't have a year.  Upon reading the knowledge base, there was reference to chainging what was displayed on the alarm screen to get the complete date, however it was already being displayed completely.  Changing the date format doesn't seem to affect what is being printed out... any ideas on how to get the date complete on the line being sent out the COMM port?

David Dudley

[Prashanth]

Hi David,

Have you tried the time format option under 'Alarms -> Print...' Please see the attached screen shot. Have a great day!

Regards,
Prashanth

[Davidd]

That option only affects the format of the date when you generate a 'Alarm Print' apparently.  Anyway, it's already set to M/D/Y.  I have M/D/Y displayed on the Alarm window, but it doesn't print the year on the logger.

David Dudley

[Arun_V]

Hello David,

What version of Lookout are you using? Because when I tested my Lookout 6.0, and saved a CSV file to the hard disk. I have atttached the CSV file.

Thanks,

Arun V

National Instruments

[Davidd]

I'm using Lookout 5.1.

Under Options->System I have 'Log Alarms to:' set to output to COM1.

David