Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:11:40 +0200

On Wednesday, September 01, 2010, Andrew Wagner wrote:
> I have a Calcout record that needs to calculate the time between its
> present and previous processing. How can I best accomplish this?
> Searching the tech-talk forum I've found that there is DTYP, "Soft
> Timestamp" which I suppose gets the system time. I would like to compute
> the time difference in seconds so is it possible to create an AI record
> 
> record(ai, "TIme") {
>   field(DESC, "System Time")
>   field(DTYP, "Soft Timestamp")
>   field(INP, "%s")
> }
> 
> that gets seconds since the epoc I can use as an input to Calcout record?

Almost. Looking at the source tree (3.14.8) I see "Soft Timestamp" support 
exists only for stringin records. Just replace "ai" by "stringin" and all 
should be fine.

Cheers
Ben

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System