Converting seconds to a date in another language

Hello all,
I am currently working on an application that uses web services to populate a web-based UI. One of the outputs is a measurement time that is generated using the LabVIEW method 'Get Date/Time in Seconds'. To make since of this, I convert the value to a double precision float and transmit it to the host (on request). On the host side, I am using Javascript to populate a text box with the current measurement date and time. To do this, I use the followign code
var dateobj = new Date(1904,1,1);
/* The variable 'time' should be the seconds since
* midnight 1 Jan 1904 of the current measurement.
var measTime = dateobj.setSeconds(time);
When I do this, what I find is that the time is actually one month off. I can correct this by changing the date in the creation of my 'dateobj' to 1 Dec 1903. Has anyone seen this before, possibly in another language? It is not beyond the realm of reason that I am doing something incorrectly, but I can't seem to get at what right now.
Thanks, Matt
Matt Richardson
Certified LabVIEW Developer
MSR Consulting, LLC
Solved!
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mtat76 wrote:
Hmmmm...that's intriguing.... I need to do some more thorough experimenting to see if I can reproduce this behavior and if there is some point at which it all flips and problem goes away. I am pretty sure that like Teststand, time is referenced to 1970 rather than 1904. I will look into this and try to provide some more details. I was hoping that someone would pop up and say that they had done this before and had no problems; but, I may be a bit optimistic...
Epoch for LabVIEW IS the non-existant second before midnight on Jan 1 1904, Leap secods are un-accounted for to the best of my knowlegde. and since 1904 WAS a leap year the Lotus" phantom 1900 Feb 29 does not pertain at all.
The "one month off issue" bares investigation. I Know Altenbach reported that happened with NI Error Reporting Service logs but, my Google skills fail me and I never did read a "First cause" analisys of the resolution. (The CAR is closed: Read that as "Maybe someone at NI found a viable workaround")
Jeff

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Latin-2 (Central Europe) ****************
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ISO 8859-9 (Turkish) ********************
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ZH CNHEI, CNKAI, CNSONG
Japanese ********************************
JA JPMINCHO, DBMINCHO, DBGOTHIC
Korean **********************************
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select new_time(sysdate, 'GMT', 'EST'), new_time(sysdate + 180, 'GMT', 'EST') from dual
NEW_TIME(SYSDATE,'G NEW_TIME(SYSDATE+18
04.08.2004 05:31:59 31.01.2005 05:31:59
select
FROM_TZ( CAST(SYSDATE AS TIMESTAMP),'GMT') at time zone 'Europe/Zurich',
FROM_TZ( CAST(SYSDATE+180 AS TIMESTAMP),'GMT') at time zone 'Europe/Zurich'
from dual;
FROM_TZ(CAST(SYSDATEASTIMESTAMP),'GMT')ATT FROM_TZ(CAST(SYSDATE+180ASTIMESTAMP),'GMT'
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Hi!
When I'm working in Robohelp HTML, and I select topic langauge and change to another language, it does not change the text. I've even tried just selecting a paragraph and changing the language there, but still nothing happens. I'm not sure if something is not set up right with my RoboHelp 8 version, or what the deal is. I did notice that when I changed the language at the project level that the Contents, Index, etc. buttons at the top changed languages, but the text in the topics stayed the same. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong or how I can fix this?
Thanks.

Hi there and welcome to our community
You are unfortunately misunderstanding what this option is for. Different languages require different character sets in order to be rendered on the computer screen properly. All the language setting does is configure the page so it will use that character set. Another process has to occur where the text is converted from one language to another.
Cheers... Rick
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FM to convert amount from one currency to another currency?

HI Experts
is thier any Fucnction module to convert amount from one currency to another currency?
please help me.
Thanks

Hi,
data: lv_foramt TYPE vbap-netpr VALUE 40,
      lv_forcurr TYPE string VALUE 'USD',
      lv_loccurr TYPE string VALUE 'INR',
      lv_locamt TYPE vbap-netpr.
CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERT_TO_LOCAL_CURRENCY'
       EXPORTING
        CLIENT                  = SY-MANDT
         DATE                    = sy-datum
         FOREIGN_AMOUNT          = lv_foramt
         FOREIGN_CURRENCY        = lv_forcurr
         LOCAL_CURRENCY          = lv_loccurr
        RATE                    = 0
       TYPE_OF_RATE            = 'M'
        READ_TCURR              = 'X'
      IMPORTING
*        EXCHANGE_RATE           =
*        FOREIGN_FACTOR          =
        LOCAL_AMOUNT            = lv_locamt
*        LOCAL_FACTOR            =
*        EXCHANGE_RATEX          =
*        FIXED_RATE              =
*        DERIVED_RATE_TYPE       =
      EXCEPTIONS
        NO_RATE_FOUND           = 1
        OVERFLOW                = 2
        NO_FACTORS_FOUND        = 3
        NO_SPREAD_FOUND         = 4
        DERIVED_2_TIMES         = 5
        OTHERS                  = 6
     IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
         WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
     ENDIF.
     write:/ lv_locamt.
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