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Owning Palette: Programming VIs and Functions

Use the Timing VIs and Functions to manipulate the speed at which an operation executes and to retrieve time and date information from the computer clock.

Example

Palette Object	Description
Date/Time To Seconds	Converts a cluster of time values into a time stamp measured as the number of seconds that have elapsed since 12:00 a.m., Friday, January 1, 1904, Universal Time.
Elapsed Time	Indicates the amount of time that has elapsed since the specified start time.
Format Date/Time String	Displays a time stamp value or a numeric value as time in the format you specify using time format codes. Time format codes include the following: %a (abbreviated weekday name), %b (abbreviated month name), %c (locale-specific date/time), %d (day of month), %H (hour, 24-hour clock), %I (hour, 12-hour clock), %m (month number), %M (minute), %p (a.m./p.m. flag), %S (second), %x (locale-specific date), %X (locale-specific time), %y (year within century), %Y (year including century), and %<digit>u (fractional seconds with <digit> precision).
Get Date/Time In Seconds	Returns a time stamp of the current time. LabVIEW calculates this time stamp using the number of seconds elapsed since 12:00 a.m., Friday, January 1, 1904, Universal Time.
Get Date/Time String	Converts a time stamp value or a numeric value to a date and time string in the time zone configured for the computer. The function interprets time stamp and numeric values as the time-zone-independent number of seconds that have elapsed since 12:00 a.m., Friday, January 1, 1904, Universal Time.
Seconds To Date/Time	Converts a time stamp value or a numeric value to a cluster of time values.
Tick Count (ms)	Returns the value of the millisecond timer.
Time Delay	Inserts a time delay into the calling VI.
Time Stamp Constant	Use the time stamp constant to pass a time and date value to the block diagram.
To Time Stamp	Converts a number to a time stamp.
Wait (ms)	Waits the specified number of milliseconds and returns the value of the millisecond timer. Wiring a value of 0 to the milliseconds to wait input forces the current thread to yield control of the CPU.
Wait Until Next ms Multiple	Waits until the value of the millisecond timer becomes a multiple of the specified millisecond multiple. Use this function to synchronize activities. You can call this function in a loop to control the loop execution rate. However, it is possible that the first loop period might be short. Wiring a value of 0 to the milliseconds multiple input forces the current thread to yield control of the CPU.

Example

Refer to the labview\examples\general\viopts.llb for examples of using the Timing VIs and Functions.