Clock

The clock sends the current system time on its outputs.

Contents

Inputs and Outputs

Inputs

• GATE (see Logic Elements | Datapoint-Gate)

• SEND - Send the current value to all connected outputs

Outputs

• TS
  The so-called UNIX time stamp is output. These are the seconds elapsed since 01.01.1970 00:00 (UTC/universal time).

• WEEKDAY
  The weekday. With Monday being 1 and Sunday being 7.

• WEEKEND
  Sends true if the weekday is Saturday or Sunday, otherwise false.

• YEAR
  The current year - e.g. 2016 

• MONTH
  The current month 1-12

• WEEK
  The current calendar week 1-53

• DAY
  The day of the month 1-31

• HOUR
  The hour of the day 0-23 

• MIN
  The minute of the hour 0-59 

• SEC
  The second of the minute 0-59 

• STRING
  A formatted text representing the current time.

The outputs are only updated if the value changes or when they are written initially. For simulation, it is additionally important that only linked outputs are updated.

Configuration

The following options are available for the time format

• %B - month written out completely (probably only English)

• %b - month short form "Jan"

• %m - month, two-digit "01"

• %A - weekday written out completely (probably only English)

• %a - weekday short form "Mon"

• %d - day of the month, two-digit "02"

• %H - hour of the day in 24h format, two-digit

• %I - hour of the day in 12h format, two-digit

• %M - minute of the hour, two-digit

• %S - second of the minute, two-digit

• %Y - year, four-digit

• %y - year, two-digit

• %p - AM (ante meridian) / PM (post meridian)

• %Z - time zone (CET / CEST / UTC)

• %z - time zone offset (-0700)

• %L - milliseconds of the second

Example:
"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" is "2016-08-31 14:41:00"

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