Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Arnold, Ned D." <[email protected]> · Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:36:25 +0000

You can see the latest timestamp on any displayed PV  by right-mouse-button -> PV Info and then select the desired field.  If you want the time displayed continuously then follow Mark's link.

  Ned

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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Mark Rivers [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 09:32 AM
To: Elmer Pensack; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Access TIME field of a PV

There is device support in EPICS base for a stringin record to display the timestamp of a record.  Look at this tech-talk note:

http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2006/msg00017.php<http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2006/msg00017.php>

Mark

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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Elmer Pensack [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 9:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Access TIME field of a PV

Hello,

I have a MEDM display with several text message PVs. The users want to know when the PVs last updated because they don’t update frequently, I thought it would be easy - I’d just display the TIME field next to the message, only to find that TIME is not accessible. So is there an easy way to display the last update time? I was hoping not to need to write code to do it.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Elmer Pensack

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System