Elapsed Time Functional Global in Custom Format

[Smootastic]

Overview:
This VI is a modification in the elapsed time functional global by outputting the time in a custom numerical format.
Description:

The double output is in the following format:  MM.SS.

For example, 1.10 is 1 minute 10 seconds.  0.56 is 0 minutes 56 seconds.  This is done by converting the appropriate unit values into strings and concatenating the string results into the custom format.  The final string is converted back to a double value.

Requirements:

• LabVIEW 2012 (or compatible)

Steps to Implement or Execute Code:

1. Use the initialize action to reset the elapsed timer.
2. Use the Get Elapsed Time function to retrieve the formatted time result.

 Additional Information or References

"**This document has been updated to meet the current required format for the NI Code Exchange.**" 

[tstahl]

That's a lot of effort to convert the time as the numeric control can be formatted to display a relative time including the delimiter between minutes and seconds.

Tim

[John Gracki]

This is quite helpful for temperature, time statistics.  We have some boil-sense operations that require a timer resolution of 1/10th of a minute and VI time stamps have been combined in minutes and seconds, making manual conversion quite difficult for repetitive statistical operations requiring the single unit of measure.  Thanks for the tip and the VI.