Timestamp scan from string

Hi All,
A minor query about time stamps and scan from string. I needed to convert a string back to a timestamp and found the solution I needed at this post: Link
I wanted to make it a little more programatic and noticed that when I assembled the formatting string it would not recognise the assembled output as a Timestamp - it outputted a double. The strings inputs are identical. The double precision output converted to a Timestamp to give the correct value - so I have a work around.
I was just curious if this is a minor issue with LabVIEW or is this an intentional feature? Or is there some step I'm missing to coerce my output to a Timestamp.
Thanks,
Dave
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I convert a string to a double represented as a timestamp. The strange is that it converts wrong, if I wire a 'NaN' to the default value. Look inside the code..
(LabVIEW 2010 SP1)
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i am trying to parse my time-string into a Time Stamp with "Scan From String" but i get some strange Error(1).
The Code:
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can anyone confirm? do i have an error in my parser-string?
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Scan From String VI returns Error 1 with "%t" as the format string input
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Why do you have the square brackets around the scan from string format string? They are not there when you generate the timestamp string so it will fail when trying to convert it back as they are expected to be there.
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