Hello All,

I have a DT85 Serie 1 Data logger with the latest firmware and am trying to display 5 thermocouple temperatures in Labview on an XY Graph.

So far I managed to configure the TCP/IP sample real-time waveform driver to fetch 5 temperatures from the DataTaker, and from there I can display the temperatures and associated timestamp on a Labview indicator, but I am having difficulty displaying the current time and date on the X axis of my Labview XY Graph. For some reason when I select Absolute Time in Labview on my XY Graph properties, it selects the timestamp of 1904 epoch and I cannot change it to display the current time and date.

Also, I noticed that if I put a digital indicator at the output of the the real-time waveform, in parallel with my XY Graph, I see 3 fields, the temperature being fetched for 1 channel, the 1904 epoch time and date correctly formatted and the current time and date correctly formatted. Does the digital indicator automatically formats the timestamp and why can I not get that format in my Labview XY Graph?

I am using Labview 2012

Thank you

Hi rcote1,

I do not have any LABView software at this moment.
But your explanation suggests that you miss some setting on your XY graph that allow you to display current date and time.
Without additional setting XY graph will show epoch 1904 as its standard.

'* You may need to use Get Date/Time In Seconds VI

Best regards,
Rudy Gunawan

Thank you Rudy for your reply. I will try the Get Date/Time in seconds, but I would prefer to convert the DT85 Timestamp to the current date/time instead of using the Date/Time of my PC.

Thank you,
Richard