Format:

• The format for writing the update time to your Fix Database is 'date' & 'time' (ie 10/11/99 10:20:48 AM). This was chosen since it's the default Fix format and it can be easily manipulated in VB script. I just wrote to a text block in the Fix database.
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The example below shows a subroutine in a timer object which periodically calculates the difference between the present time and the last time the database was updated. (This subroutine can be found in the fullplug.grf picture in the updatetimer object.)


• If the difference between the update time and the present time is greater than the tolerance for your subsystem, any number of events can be triggered. In this case, a warning message appears and requires the operator to take action. It is planned that an alarm of this kind will take place on the global alarm page which will be monitoring the update times of all subsystems.
  



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Michael Kirk
Last modified: Wed Oct 20 14:41:40 CDT 1999