Read from file and plot data against timestamp

Hello,
I know that there are already many posts regarding the question I m about to ask. But, I somehow dont seem to achieve what I want using the suggestions given in the other posts.
My problem is that, I have a file with the first column as a time stamp containing hour, minute, second and millisecond. The second column in a set of pressure values. I want to plot a graph of these pressure values against the timestamp recorded in this .txt file. Whatever I do, the timestamp values seem to skip by a couple of seconds.
How do i do this correctly?
Also, Is it advisable to use the read from file or the read from spreadsheet file vi? Kindly help me out.
Thanks and regards.

Hey, I was having a similar issue the other day. The first problem I had was how to open the file and actually get the timestamp information. Since I'm using LabView 8.0, I had to go into Read Spreadsheet File and create a new vi to open strings (in an array form). That's the Read Spreadsheet File (string) vi below. Then, I had to figure out how to convert the string of a timestamp to something meaningful to me. The Timestamp2.vi is how I did that below. I'm also including a little test file. So, to run Timestamp2.vi, you will have to input the right base path, and have the Read Spreadsheet File (string).vi in the same place as Timestamp2. Hope that helps. I think I'm finally getting this stuff, so let me know if it doesn't work.
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Timestamp2.vi ‏28 KB
Read From Spreadsheet File (String).vi ‏25 KB

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