George, I am also interested in this issue... Do you mind sharing some of the feedback you got? I didn't see any responses in my Info_Labview daily digest. Thanks, Gary
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subject: Re: Time zones and time stamps From: "George Gatling (Contractor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 17:34:33 -0400 Thanks guys for your feedback... I got a lot of replies that suggest ways I can manipulate the seconds counter in labview to get what i want, which will do the trick. It is not terribly complicated to adjust the seconds in the timestamp control (even accounting for daylight savings, if applicable) and then feed the adjusted value to the format date/time into string function. However, this is IMHO still a workaround (one I intend on using though)... the time stamp control is defined as UTC, so when I poke around with it to get the format function to work the way I want I am in effect going against the definition of the time stamp control. If I started passing this modified time stamp around, things could get *quite* confusing. So to the fellows at NI... isn't it about time we got a little more control over the format date/time into string function? Just adding two inputs, one for whether to use daylight savings and another for which timezone to use would probably cover most needs... and if unwired, there terminals could default to the system settings. That way the new features would not have to break existing code. Just a thought.
