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Time, Trends – Rockwell Automation 9301 Series RSView32 Users Guide User Manual

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System tags

B–5

Time

The following tags record time and date information in various
formats:

Trends

The following tags are created each time you define a trend control tag
in the Trend configuration dialog box. These tags are not stored in the
system folder. Rather, they are stored in the folder that is created when
you name the trend animation tag.

Tag Name

Type

Provides this data

Read or write

system\Date

String

System date.

Read only

system\
DateAndTimeInteger

Analog

Number of seconds elapsed since
midnight (00:00:00) January 1, 1970,
coordinated universal time (UTC).

Read only

system\
DateAndTimeString

String

Complete date and time display
For example:

Monday, December 12 1997 10:47:50
AM

Read only

system\DayOfMonth

Analog

Day of the month (1 – 31).

Read only

system\DayOfWeek

Analog

Day of the week (1 – 7); Sunday = 1.

Read only

system\DayOfYear

Analog

Day of the year (1 – 366).

Read only

system\Hour

Analog

Hour of the day (0 – 23).

Read and write

system\Minute

Analog

Minutes (0 – 59).

Read and write

system\Month

Analog

Number for month.

Read only

system\MonthString

String

Name of the month.

Read only

system\Second

Analog

Seconds (0 – 59).

Read and write

system\Time

String

System time.

Read only

system\Year

Analog

The year (1980 – 2099).

Read only