I suggest building a CALC block that outputs the current hour, minute, and second on three ROxx outputs. The update of the outputs would be tied to the change of a Boolean input. When it goes into alarm, put out the time. When it comes out of alarm, put out zeros on the output. The TIM instruction will give you seconds since midnight. A few calc block steps will give you the hour, minutes, and seconds. Alex Johnson Invensys Systems, Inc. 10707 Haddington Houston, TX 77043 713.722.2859 (office) 713.722.2700 (switchboard) 713.932.0222 (fax) ajohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx For the latest information on ArchestrA, go to www.invensys.com/Archestra.html. -----Original Message----- From: Doron Sani [mailto:DoronS@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 7:30 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Maurice Moshe Subject: [foxboro] timestamp HI all, I need some help with developing an application as follows: on an overlay, display the timestamp of time when the CIN went ON. possible approach: in CAD, I can filter on the name of the block, and get one line. if I can get this result in a command line, then I can awk on the relevant field, in order to insert in the overlay text. how can I get the result of a match from CAD, from command prompt, into a file. Doron Sani tel: +972-3-9392525 fax: +972-3-9244249 cell: +972-55-324245 e-mail: dorons@xxxxxxxxxxx;dorons@xxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave