Formatting date and time in Post

[Bocho]

I hate to ask a Dreaded Post question with so few postings on the forum, but I'll risk the "Gauntlet" anyway. My Fanuc 6-M doesn't like colons,ie,:, and therefore replaces them with a letter O. As you might imagine, this makes a nasty looking time output on the Fanuc's screen. Is there a way to format the date output from the post or is this hard-coded output from the C languge? Thanks in advance, Tim

[Allan Brown]

You can change the output in the pheader section of the post.

 

Look for ":"

[crazy^millman]

No I think that is more of a windows thing than anything even if you go to military time it still uses the : I have program set up like this.

code:

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 O9999 (03HOLE2)

(MC9 FILE - C:2003_MC92905_MC903FLIPPED.MC9)

(PROGRAM LOCATION - CNC_DELTANC_PROGRAMS2905_NC03HOLE2.NC)

(DATE - OCT-10-03)

(TIME - 16:31)

(T8 | 1/8 FLAT ENDMILL | H8 | D8 | D0.1250" | | CONTOUR....)

G0G17G40G80G90

T8M6( 1/8 FLAT ENDMILL)

(MAX | Z.25)

(MIN | Z-.1083)

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I use the colon at the C: and really like thisa layout and again that is a wondows thing I beleive. I hoping if I am brave enough to start toehrs will follow. Good question.

 

Crazy Millman

 

We dont mind helping you fix your post just dont ask us to give you our posts.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I replaced mine with "*". You've asked a good post question. "How do I do this?", not Does anyone have a post for this..." Big difference.

 

Welcome to the forum!!!

[CNCGUY]

How do you change the format of the date?

 

11-05-03 is what I want.

 

05-11-03 is what I get.

 

All I have in the post is

*progno, "(progname, " ", date, ")", e

 

Is there a way to switch month and day?

 

Thanks,

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

How's this?

 

code:

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# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Select month

smon00 ""

smon01 "JAN"

smon02 "FEB"

smon03 "MAR"

smon04 "APR"

smon05 "MAY"

smon06 "JUN"

smon07 "JUL"

smon08 "AUG"

smon09 "SEP"

smon10 "OCT"

smon11 "NOV"

smon12 "DEC"

smonth

 

fstrsel smon00 month smonth

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code:

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      "(DATE      - ", *smonth, "-", *day, "-", *year, ")", e

---

HTH

 

[ 11-05-2003, 12:27 PM: Message edited by: James Meyette ]

[Bocho]

My Post outputs like 9:30. When I load this post into th Fanuc m6, it shows up 09O30. The controller is changing a good output from the post to trash. Can the time format be changed perhaps to like 9.30 (am pm would be nice too.)

[CNCGUY]

James,

 

What part of the post does this go into?

 

quote:

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# ----------------------------------------------------------------

#Select month

smon00 ""

smon01 "JAN"

smon02 "FEB"

smon03 "MAR"

smon04 "APR"

smon05 "MAY"

smon06 "JUN"

smon07 "JUL"

smon08 "AUG"

smon09 "SEP"

smon10 "OCT"

smon11 "NOV"

smon12 "DEC"

smonth

fstrsel smon00 month smonth

---

Thanks

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Before the

 

code:

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# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

# General G and M Code String select tables

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Usually the time is expressed in 24 hour format.

 

I don't know how to change the time format from ":" to anything else.

 

Dave??? You out there?

 

 

HTH

 

[ 11-05-2003, 01:11 PM: Message edited by: James Meyette ]

[crazy^millman]

Thnaks James for Teaching me soemthing on this one. That book keeps on a Growing I tell you.

 

 

Crazy Millman

 

If you both Download the Mpmaster post you can see where this in use the copy and paste this into your existing post. I as alway recommned backing up before doing any post mod so if you mess up to bad just start over, Been there done that so just try it and do a little at a time so you can see how things work.

 

[ 11-05-2003, 01:10 PM: Message edited by: Millman^Crazy ]

[CNCGUY]

O.K. Hope I'm not being to picky.

 

How do I get rid of teh extra spaces between month, day and year?

 

 

*progno, "(EMCO", " ", progname," ",*smonth,"-",*day,"-",*year,")", e

 

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[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

The following are segments from the MPFADAL2.PST ->

 

code:

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# These formats used only for 'Date' & 'Time'

fs2 25 2.2 2.2lt #Decimal, force two leading & two trailing (time2)

fs2 26 2 0 2 0t #Integer, force trailing (hour)

fs2 27 0 2 0 2lt #Integer, force leading & trailing (min)

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code:

---

# -------------------- Date & Time Formatting ------------------------------

fmt 25 time2 # Capture 24-hour time value into 'time2' variable

fmt 26 hour # Hour

fmt 27 min # Minutes

# Uncomment the 'fmt' for 'day' and/or 'month' if you only want 1-digit format

#fmt 26 day # Day (2 digit format)

#fmt 26 month # Month (2 digit format)

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code:

---

ptime           #Turn 24-hour time format into AM/PM format

!spaces

spaces = zero

if time >= 13, time2 = (time - 12)

else, time2 = time

hour = int(time2)

min = frac(time2)

*hour, ":", *min,

if time > 12, " PM"

else, " AM"

spaces = prv_spaces

---

[Bocho]

James,

Can you not using the string functions change the nth character in the string into something else an then put the string back together. I used to do this in BASIC, but ... You don't use it you loss it. It's been too long. I think according to the post manual something like this can be done. A bit of newtime$=oldtime$ manipulated kind of thing?

TIM

[crazy^millman]

Good Eye Roger have not used the MpFadal2 in so long forgot that was in there that way.

 

Crazy Millman

[Bocho]

Roger,

Somehow I missed your post before writing. You'll have to type louder I think that's just what I need. Will modify post later and try. I'll be sure to let all know. Thanks a bunch. Tim

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

quote:

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How do I get rid of teh extra spaces between month, day and year?

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Uhhh,

 

code:

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spaces      : 0     #Number of spaces to add between fields

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Try that one first. If not, change this;

quote:

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*progno, "(EMCO", " ", progname," ",*smonth,"-",*day,"-",*year,")", e

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to this;

 

quote:

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*progno, "(EMCO", progname, *smonth, *day, *year,")", e

---

HTH

[CNCGUY]

James,

 

Changing spaces to 0 removed spaces everywhere. I ended up removing the "-" between each word.

 

Now it post month day year (no spaces though). Thats better than day month year. Never could get used to that.

 

Thank you all for your efforts.

I learn a little more every day.

[Lathe-Mill]

i got this error..how i fix it?...thanx

[Lathe-Mill]

Variable not defined: smon00

Post line number 350

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

CNCGUY,

 

Want to rid yourself of [spaces] in certain places?

Here is how ->

 

code:

---

  !spaces # Save current 'spaces' setting to 'prv_spaces'

spaces = 0 # Turn off spaces

*progno, "(EMCO", " ", progname," ",*smonth,"-",*day,"-",*year,")", e

spaces = prv_spaces # Restore previous setting

---

[CNCGUY]

Thanks Roger, I'll give it shot.

[Lathe-Mill]

well i had the error on line 350 , now is

Variable not defined: smon00

Post line number 348

 

 

i have this

 

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

#Select month smon00 ""

smon01 "JAN"

smon02 "FEB"

smon03 "MAR"

smon04 "APR"

smon05 "MAY"

smon06 "JUN"

smon07 "JUL"

smon08 "AUG"

smon09 "SEP"

smon10 "OCT"

smon11 "NOV"

smon12 "DEC"

smonth

fstrsel smon00 month smonth

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

# General G and M Code String select tables

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

[ 11-05-2003, 04:02 PM: Message edited by: T@T@LO ]

[crazy^millman]

Go back and look you are missing the First Line Fom James posting that is what defines it is all.

 

Look Very close I promise it is there.

 

Crazy Millman

[CNCGUY]

Roger,

 

It worked great. The spaces code was in other places but I wasnt sure what it was for. Now I know.

 

Like I said before, not a day goes by that I dont learn something here. Hope I can be as helpfull someday.

 

to all!!!

[Lathe-Mill]

i cant the ")" at the end of the line, what am i missing?

 

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