TimeValue - Formating a time channel

Question

How do I Format a date/time chanel to have only the Time listed HH:MMS.
Right now I have a Time Chanel of 01/19/2013  07:23:12:0000 which I believe is the default format.  I want to create a seperate channel that would only have the Time in it.  I am also trying to Seperate out the Hr, Min, Sec into individual channels as well.

Answer 1

Hi Jcheese,
The date/time channel in DIAdem is always a numeric channel which counts the seconds since the year 0. The representation of date/time values in VIEW or REPORT can be changed by setting the format like “hh:nn:ss”.
Here are the settings for a VIEW table:
One possible way to seperate the time information is the following script:
Dim oTChn, oHChn, oMChn, oSChn, iLoop
set oTChn = Data.GetChannel("MyTimeChannel")
set oHChn = Data.Root.ActiveChannelGroup.Channels.Add("MyHourC​hannel",DataTypeChnFloat64)
set oMChn = Data.Root.ActiveChannelGroup.Channels.Add("MyMinut​eChannel",DataTypeChnFloat64)
set oSChn = Data.Root.ActiveChannelGroup.Channels.Add("MySecon​dChannel",DataTypeChnFloat64)
for iLoop = 1 to oTChn.Size
oHChn(iLoop) = Hour(oTChn(iLoop))
oMChn(iLoop) = Minute(oTChn(iLoop))
oSChn(iLoop) = Second(oTChn(iLoop))
next
Greetings
Walter