Simple And Easy Way Of Creating A Daily Log Twice Per Day

[jcallen1]

What is the simplest way to have program run continuously but start a new log at 7AM  that will run to 7PM and then start a new log at 7PM to run to 7AM and have the date and hourly times saved in each?

[AzeoTech]

The easiest?

 

In an Event for one of your channels that updates all the time, put:

 

logging.mylog.strFileName = "c:\myData\filePrefix_" + formatDateTime("%y%m%d_%p", systime() - 7 * 3600)

 

Change mylog to the name of your logging set

Change the path and prefix inside the quotes to whatever you want.

Change the 7 in the part that says 7 * 3600 to the hour in the day you want it to switch, in your case 7am/7pm.

 

This will cause the file name to be stamped with the date, then AM or PM.  It will say AM from 7am to 7pm, and PM from 7pm to 7am.

 

This works in US locales.  What it does in other locales I cannot say, as it depends on how AM/PM is represented in that locale (country).