Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hello,

I need to have an array of TIME field values of a PV as an input to an aSub record, but since the input type should be one of the data type listed on menuFtype, I do know how to do so, so I would appreciate it if anyone could direct me on that.

As an idea, I thought of getting the TIME field values as string and then, filling the array using circular buffer algorithm in a compress record, and then, imputing the array to the aSub record as a string array, and in the c++ subroutine, converting the TIME field values to epicsTime, but the challenge I am facing is that the TIME field value is of NTP format, and I do not know what format specifier, not listed in strftime function, I can use to expand the fractional part of the time, and I can just not ignore that part of the TIME value. I know I can set up my format specifier using  boost::date_time library and its time_facet in my c++ subroutine, but I still have the problem getting the fractional part using stringin record type described in below link:

https://epics.anl.gov/tech-talk/2016/msg01039.php

Thank you in advance and will be looking forward to hearing back from you soon.

Regards,

Amin