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#Post#: 1967--------------------------------------------------
Timestamps
By: GarnetTozer Date: May 15, 2017, 8:44 pm
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Is anyone having much luck with the time functions? Specifically
I want to return the current hour from modul . Secondly, when I
read this value, the format (converted to string) appears as
such:
2017-05-16T00:59:59+00:00
My PC clock is reading that same date, but the time is 7:42 pm.
Hours, minutes, and seconds seem to be a bit off.
None the less, I still want to fetch the hours integer value.
Garnet
#Post#: 1979--------------------------------------------------
Re: Timestamps
By: Nick_W Date: May 20, 2017, 1:36 pm
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Checkout my Time library, everything i know about timestamps is
in it.
BTW the module time is really the gateway time (obtained from
NTP server), and sent to the module when it connects. Timezone
doesn't really seem to work though...
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Re: Timestamps
By: GarnetTozer Date: May 21, 2017, 9:34 am
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Thanks Nick,
I've just google'd you and am checking it out now.
Garnet
#Post#: 2061--------------------------------------------------
Re: Timestamps
By: bdevlin Date: July 9, 2017, 1:08 pm
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I can't seem to get datetime.now() until the second request from
a module. It kinda makes sense I guess, but that means the
modules first response is bad data.
#Post#: 2063--------------------------------------------------
Re: Timestamps
By: mc-John Date: July 10, 2017, 11:17 am
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The code to get date/time info looks like this:
[code] Dim dat As DateTime = DateTime.Now
Dim hr As Integer = dat.Hour
Dim sec As Integer = dat.Second
Dim month As Integer = dat.Month
[/code]
#Post#: 2065--------------------------------------------------
Re: Timestamps
By: bdevlin Date: July 12, 2017, 2:53 pm
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I can get data from DateTime.Now() but The data transmitted via
publish in the first module boot is "2000-01-01T00:00:00+00:00",
then the second and subsequent publish the time nearly
correctly, however it's off by an hour (-8:00N is my time zone).
I can't figure out how to force the module to fetch the time
fist in the boot() event successfully first.
This seems to work ok, any problems with this method?
Shared Event Boot()
While DateTime.Now().Year= 2000
End While
End Event
#Post#: 2068--------------------------------------------------
Re: Timestamps
By: mc-John Date: July 17, 2017, 9:21 am
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That will work. To limit power consumption you could sleep for
100mSec in the while loop.
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Re: Timestamps
By: bdevlin Date: July 17, 2017, 1:35 pm
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So that would be this in uSeconds?
While DateTime.Now().Year= 2000
Thread.Sleep(100000)
End While
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Re: Timestamps
By: mc-John Date: July 18, 2017, 9:56 am
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That's correct
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