Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ralph Lange <[email protected]> · Fri, 11 May 2007 21:34:50 +0200

Hi Andrew,
Andrew Johnson wrote:

Yes, there's a stringin device support delivered as part of Base since
R3.14.5 that you can give an strftime string to. Eg:
record(stringin, "$(user)now")
{
    field(DESC, "Current time and date")
    field(DTYP, "Soft Timestamp")
    field(INP, "@%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%03f")
}
If you need the fields as integers rather than strings you can use one
stringin record per field and rely on the numeric conversions built
into the database links to convert the VAL field of each record into
the appropriate integer -- not wildly efficient, but functional.

As the VxWorks strftime() does not support "%s" (seconds since the
epoch), is there another reasonable way to get this number from the
timestamp of a record into the value field of the same (or another) record?
Ralph

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System