Get Current Time Stamp



=Summary= This function adds error handling to the LabVIEW primitive, Get Date/Time in Seconds.

=VI Name= Get Current Time Stamp -- this is preferable to "Get Date/Time in Seconds", since it is more descriptive and does not have any illegal file system characters, such as the backslash ("/").

=Minimum LabVIEW Version= This function is written in LV82.

=Palette / Library= This function should be part of the [b]OpenG Time[/b] (oglib_time) library, and appears in the [b]OpenG Time[/b] palette.

=VI Setup=
 * Reentrant == TRUE (this is a timing VI that should not be coupled to other instances)

=VI Icon=
 * This function will use a variation of the Get Date/Time in Seconds function's icon, with the addition of exclamation points over thee error in/out terminals to indicate error handling capabilities.

=Error Handling=
 * Error pass through. Should output the current time stamp, even when error in is TRUE.



=Use Cases=
 * 1) This VI solves the common problem of sequencing timing elements, using the error cluster solely for data flow dependency.

=Personnel=
 * Contributor - Jim Kring

=SVN Location= /trunk/candidates/Get Current Time Stamp

=Links=
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