Logging data with LabView and FP-DI-330

Hi,
I have a problem.
I am monitoring 6 ports of the FP-DI-330, via LabView.
I have it runing in a while loop that desides the update frequency. It then get stored in a txt file with the time in Hours, Minutes and Seconds. I need the time in milli seconds to skill betwen the diferent input times. Because the different input´s can come in the same second.
i have added the vi file
Enyone have an sugestion?
Attachments:
FP_DI_330.vi ‏75 KB

First of all...
i will throw away the boolean display. But the Spreadsheet is the formation of the logfile is it not?
I will need that to get the data nicely organized.
I dont know how to get milli seconds displayed enywhere. If i use for example the tick count (MS) it starts with a number around 3287101, should it not start with 1 and then count up?
"Further in your vi, you forgot to connect the current time to the Get Date/Time string. Can't you use the millisecond values for building the time-values?"
How can i connect the current time to the Get Date/Time String? And how should i use the ms timer values for building time-values.
file-info of the log-file? What?
Thanks for the ideas but i could really use some help.
I would think th
at it could not be that dificult making a simple ms count to add to the time for every line of the logfile. But i cant get it to work.

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