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March 15, 2017
12:47, EET

peterrob45

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Hi all,

I have a question, I am getting Timestamp output from the server, as like this 10:42:20.2720000 GMT but actually, my question is, in my simulation server the time running is 11:42:20.2720000 GMT.
Why can’t I print the correct time?
How can I get the exact time value? (as like in my desktop/PC).

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March 21, 2017
14:56, EET

Bjarne Boström

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Hi,

Some questions:
1. Version number of Simulation Server
2. What does simulation server Status view display as Current Server Time (e.g. here in Finland that is currently 2017-03-21 14:48:50+0200 )
3. How are you observing/printing the time?
4. In which timezone you are running the Simulation Server

OPC UA DateTime’s are in UTC, Simulation Server does convert these as local time for the UI, but the actual transmitted values to clients are in UTC.

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March 22, 2017
14:01, EET

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HI,

1) OPC UA Simulation Server 2.2.2-109.
2) In my simulation server status, the time is showing the correct way such as
3) I am printing my output for the tag Counter1 and their time stamp such as a (value=256 and time= 22.03.2017 12:58:50.256) but its printing like this (value=256 and time= 22.03.2017 11:58:50.256).
4) I am running in CET time zone.

Is there any way to convert the timing ?

Thanks

March 22, 2017
14:47, EET

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For 3. I meant that which client application or SDK are you using to read the value? i.e. code if you are developing the client via an SDK. If it is an already existing client application there might be some configuration parameter.

For SDKs you have to ask the vendor of that SDK. Anyway since you can get it in UTC you can just convert it manually , how to do that is basic programming knowledge and outside the scope of this forum. Still it is probably best if you read the UA Spec v.1.03 Part 6 section 5.2.2.5 on UA DateTime as the values are in unit 100 nanoseconds from jan 1, 1601 UTC

IF you are using the Java SDK, then you could set DateTime.setUseLocalTimeInToString(true) for DateTime.toString to print local time based on the JVM’s timezone, but I would not use that for anything other than debugging prints. Instead you would get the value as “Java units” with DateTime.getTimeInMillis which would give you the standard Java milliseconds between the time and midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC which you would pass normally to http://www.joda.org/joda-time/ or if running Java 8 or later to java.time API.

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March 28, 2017
16:24, EEST

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Hi Bjarne,

Thanks for the suggestion, the above problem is solved. What I am trying now is I don’t want the millisecond in my timestamp. If I am using normal java code I can use some syntax like this to overcome this problem.

System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat(“MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss”).format(date));
then the output would be something like this 03/28/2017 03:01:55

While printing our server timestamp by these code System.out.println(“” + dv.getServerTimestamp()); output will be like this 03/28/2017 03:01:55:125600 CEST

My question is can we remove the millisecond and CEST? because I am using this for SQL data logging, I need the exact value.

Regards.

March 28, 2017
19:31, EEST