Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Rod Nussbaumer <[email protected]> · Thu, 29 Mar 2018 08:14:18 -0700

Hi all.

I'm using streamDevice to read string data from a device, and one of the

data that it returns is the Unix Epoch time as a floating point value in

ASCII string format:

TIME_NOW:1522335837.961008

I would like to be able to translate this to a more human readable

format. Is there any built-in function in an IOC (3.14.12.5 right now)

that I can use to do the conversion? Or, does anyone have a set of

reliable CALC record expressions that can be used to get me something

like YY:MM:DD-hh:mm:ss in any displayable format? I know the formula to

do this has all sorts of quirky exceptions and so on, so I'd like to

avoid trying to roll my own if I can avoid it, especially if the

facility to do it already exists.

Thanks.

Rod Nussbaumer
TRIUMF
Vancouver, Canada.