PLC5 Month and Day swapped???

[kekrahulik]

Anyone seen this? Can explain this?

If I look at my status file, the date is 6-13-2023
These values are:
S18 = 2023
S19 = 13
S20 = 6

When I use these in code (PLC is online), I see the values for S19 and S20 switched???

S18 = 2023
S19 = 6
S20 = 13

Even if I think the status file is labeled wrong, S19 is the day no matter how I read it.

 

[Mickey]

Another point of few, from the manual. See pdf

 

[plvlce]

Per the manual, S:19 is 'Processor clock month'.

Note that in your picture the Structured Radix does not specify individual words, just that 'S:20-18' is 'Date'.

It is presumably displayed as MM/DD/YYYY rather than internal order because that is the format they think their users expect (or perhaps there's a setting to change the display format somewhere).

 

[kekrahulik]

Thanks for the replies. At least I understand my confusion.

 

[cidchase]

The United States has a rather unique way of writing the date that is imitated in very few other countries (although Canada and Belize do also use the form).

Just a comment. I've noticed that other countries use year-month-day or day-month-year but never really investigated it. Either one is a rational hierarchy.

My only objection is to "rather unique."