Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Marty Kraimer <[email protected]> · Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:19:34 -0500

chen wrote:
> 
> Hi, Marty:
>I have a question for you about epics.
>In 3-12 epics tsDefs.h has TS_EPOCH_SEC_PAST_1970 constant defined.
> Now in 3-13 epics this constant is no longer  defined.
> In my channel access service library for cdev, I have
>         been adding this constant to the dbr_time_short (or like)
>         value.stamp.nsec to obtain the time stamp value. In the 3-13 what
>         do I have to do?
> #####################################################
> Jie Chen
> Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
> 12000, Jefferson Ave.
> Newport News, VA 23606
> 
> (757)269-5046 (office) (757)269-5279 (fax)
> [email protected]
> #####################################################

The header file drvTS.h defines routines TSepochUnixToEpics and
TSepochEpicsToUnix.
There are also routines to convert to/from the Network Time Protocal
epoch.

I can see that these should really have been put into tsDefs.h but too
late now for beta12.

Marty Kraimer

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System