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Subject:	Some epics timestamp questions
From:	王林 <[email protected]>
To:	<[email protected]>
Date:	Fri, 27 May 2011 23:21:59 +0800

Hello All,

I have some questions about epics timestamp, my environment is EPICS-3.14.8.2 / VxWorks5.5.1 / MVME5100 and RHEL4.0 with ntpd service.

1. I use <dbpr "wanglin:calcExample",4> to show the TIME field of a record, is there any better and convenient method?

2. When I load a EPICS exampleApp and start the ntpd service on the host,

<dbpr "wanglin:calcExample",4> will display the information like (I just show three fields here):

TSE: 0 TSEL:CONSTANT TIME: 0x284110812d1fe786

While if I stop the ntpd service on the host, the information will be like:

TSE: 0 TSEL:CONSTANT TIME: 0x0000008c31ab9b64

With and without ntpd service, the TIME field is very different, where the timestamp is retrieved from without ntpd,

VxWorks time, VxWorks internal ticks counter or elsewhere?

3. In the source file base-3.14.8.2/src/libCom/osi/os/vxWorks/iocClock.c, value piocClockPvt->clock will keep the EPICS time, routine syncNTP() will retrieve time from ntp server with the interval of iocClockSyncRate, routine epicsTimeGetCurrent() will update piocClockPvt->clock and return the current time, and routine epicsTimeGetEvent() will just return the time in piocClockPvt->clock.

What I don't understand is that, When a record is being processed, recGblGetTimeStamp() will be called, which will next call epicsTimeGetEvent() , but I think routine epicsTimeGetEvent() just return the time kept in piocClockPvt->clock and does not updated it to the current time, whereas routine epicsTimeGetCurrent() updates piocClockPvt->clock to the current time and return it, but who calls it? Thus I think there must be someting not correct in my mind.

So, my third question is how EPICS record get the updated current time when being processed?

Maybe my description above is not very clear. : )

Thanks,

Lin Wang

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