250-1000 hour test cycle studio 5000

Greetings everyone,

I am writing an application for a test cell. I am using an L24ER AB PLC and a 10 PVPlus 7. The end user would like to see the start time and date of the test the end date and time of the test and the elapsed/remaining time of the test. I can not for the life of me figure out how to add a certain number of hours to the current time and be accurate with days and months. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Russell D.

Have you explored the GSV instruction to get the time and date from the processor? It extracts it to a DINT array of 7 elements.

Hi jstolaruk

I have moved the date and time into a dint 7 array but dont know how to add the hours to get a new date and time. I have divided the hours by 24 to get days. but adding days gets confusing when changing months.

This may help:

https://www.advancedhmi.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=80a7bd54b658458827f3d3e474f8a126&topic=2147.0

Thanks everyone,

I found some add ons in the sample code that worked beautifully. T_clock and T_add.

Russell D.