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Labview runtime engine - figuring out what is needed to run

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dasilvdy@ucmail.uc.edu wrote:

 

That joke about excel solved a 3-month long issue... 

 

I use on my computer day-month-year, when I changed to month-day-year it worked! I can't believe it was something so DUMB

I would NEVER expect that to be the problem.


My first guess when reading the initial post was actually a mismatch of decimal point setting, but both screen shots where showing a comma as decimal separator, which while it would be strange for an US regional setting, which I assumed you were from your email in your username, but still consistent on both machines.

 

My guess is however that not Excel is in fact the culprit here, as it uses correctly whatever date format your system configures, but the LabVIEW program, where your professor most likely used an explicit date format string rather than the format code to use the date format according to the platform configuration.

 

If interfacing with Excel and other Office application, it is important to observe and use the system configuration settings rather than trying to enforce a specific format.

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@NIquist wrote:

Yeah, it's crazy how EVERYONE else in the world thinks that dates should be expressed in a logical day, month, year format.  Here in the good 'Ol USA we know better!  🙃


Don't get me started on the "proper" date format! Triggers me *every* time. ( mumbles under his breath about ISO 8601 )

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@Frozen wrote:

@NIquist wrote:

Yeah, it's crazy how EVERYONE else in the world thinks that dates should be expressed in a logical day, month, year format.  Here in the good 'Ol USA we know better!  🙃


Don't get me started on the "proper" date format! Triggers me *every* time. ( mumbles under his breath about ISO 8601 )


Yeah, why would you write a number with Most Significant Digit/number first. 😄 It's not like it's standard in all other measures of life (unless you're an elf)

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Actually, for data folders and files, I almost always go with MSD first to help Windows file explorer sorts.  YYYY-mm-dd_HHMMSS is a pretty typical prefix.

 

Native folder and file timestamps can get out of order after the fact if post-processing adds files to a folder or (less commonly) appends results to a file.

 

 

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