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Subject: pyEpics time stamps
From: Eric Norum <[email protected]>
To: EPICS mailing list <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 13:48:21 -0700
I’m seeing something odd with time stamps in my pyEpics application.   Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem with how pyEpics handles time stamps?

Step 1 —  check local time
enorum@b04lxioc02 213> date
Mon May 12 13:37:31 PDT 2014

Step 2 —  confirm that the record time stamps are as expected:
enorum@b04lxioc02 214> camonitor SR1:BCM:ADC_WF | sed '/10496.*/s///'
SR1:BCM:ADC_WF 2014-05-12 13:37:33.666516 
SR1:BCM:ADC_WF 2014-05-12 13:37:34.666129 
SR1:BCM:ADC_WF 2014-05-12 13:37:35.665747 
SR1:BCM:ADC_WF 2014-05-12 13:37:36.665359 

Step 3 —  check what pyEpics reports:
enorum@b04lxioc02 215> python b.py
2014-05-12 11:37:40
2014-05-12 18:37:40
2014-05-12 11:37:41
2014-05-12 18:37:41




Times are two hours off, both UTC and local (we are now 7 hours behind UTC).



Here’s the pyEpics script that printed the above — it’s stripped out of a somewhat larger application just to show the problem
from epics import PV
import argparse
import math
import sys
import time

def checkTimestamp(pvname=None, timestamp=None, **kws):
    sec = math.floor(timestamp)
    tm = time.localtime(sec)
    print '%4.4d-%2.2d-%2.2d %2.2d:%2.2d:%2.2d' % (tm.tm_year, tm.tm_mon, tm.tm_mday, tm.tm_hour, tm.tm_min, tm.tm_sec)
    tm = time.gmtime(sec)
    print '%4.4d-%2.2d-%2.2d %2.2d:%2.2d:%2.2d' % (tm.tm_year, tm.tm_mon, tm.tm_mday, tm.tm_hour, tm.tm_min, tm.tm_sec)

pvADC = PV('SR1:BCM:ADC_WF', form='time', callback=checkTimestamp)
time.sleep(3)


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