Military Time for contrologix processor

[ARYankee 0]

I've not had to set the time before on a proccessor so I may be missing something. Is there any way to set the processor time to military time? It would make my life so much easier in programming grabbing shift and daily batch counts.

[b_carlton 61]

I don't have access to a ControlLogix system right now but I have never seen a PLC RTC readout in anything but 'military time' (hours from 0 through 23). If you mean something else please comment.

[Ken Roach 194]

The "wallclock time" object in the controller definitely uses 0- 23 for the Hour numbers. In v16 and later, there's both a controller time that's on UTC time, and a "Local Time" that's adjusted for time zone and can adjust for daylight saving time. You use a GSV instruction to put the DateTime or LocalDateTime attribute of the WallClockTime object into a DINT[7] array. The fourth element (offset [3]) is the Hour number. It's 1:43 PM here on the Pacific Coast, so the Hour value for LocalDateTime is 13 and the Hour value for the DateTime is 21.

[ARYankee 0]

Thank you for the replies. I realized after I had posted this and the time passed noon that it was indeed in military time. 0-23. Now I feel goofy for even asking this. I do appreciate the help though. Edited 26 Dec 2013 by ARYankee