Reading time in PAC Control

[bhimababu2018]

How to Read time in pac control program, i want time same as server time

[Beno]

Hi Babu. Welcome to the Opto forums.

Here are a few search results that might help answer your question (to be clear, I’m not exactly sure what your ‘time’ question is, so feel free to review these suggestions and if none of them are quite right, please ask more questions to help us help you)…

Time sync a PAC Controller with an Internet time server

Like most microcontrollers / PLC’s, the PAC Controller uses a real time chip for its date/time functions. That chip will have some drift in its accuracy due to lots of reasons, not the least of which is temperature. Thus, over time, the clock will be off by some amount. If you are running PAC Display all the time, there is an option under the ‘Configure’ -> ‘Runtime’ -> ‘Control Engine’ tab to allow you to synchronize the control engine clock with the PC clock every day or so. Also, when you…

Calculate Unix epoch time in PAC Control

The Unix epoch / “unix time” is the number of seconds that have passed since January 1st, 1970 (counting leap years, but not counting leap seconds). Many software systems rely on the unix time standard as consistent and predictable way of calculating, storing, and sharing the date and time. For example, databases will often use unix time to keep track of when entries are inserted into the database. It’s also in the Sparkplug B specification for MQTT, is used a lot in Node-RED, and thousands of …

Date Formatting in JavaScript (and OptoScript)

There are many options for date formatting in JavaScript, among which are toString() which results in “Tue Jul 18 2017 13:28:48 GMT-0700 (PDT)”, toUTCString() that gives “Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:28:48 GMT”, and finally toISOString() for “2017-07-18T20:28:48.297Z”, as well as methods that return each piece with getFullYear()_, getHours(), getMilliseconds(), etc. (see full list). None of these, however, provide 12 hour time or AM / PM status, which is usually easier to actually read. In order to g…

[Beno]

@bhimababu2018 for some reason you sent me 2 DM’s rather than replying to this topic, that’s not very helpful for any others that might want to understand what you are asking.

You mentioned that you need to “Change the dot NET time on the PAC Controller”.
The PAC Controller uses compiled Forth and PAC Control is a native Windows .exe, so I am unsure what you are looking to do.

Perhaps this blog post will help.

How to set the clock on a PAC Controller