Daylight Saving Flag

GSLogic

Anyone know if there's a way to get a flag from an NI master (running 3.21.354 >) when Daylight Saving is in affect? I know it can send lots of different data, like if you have it turned on/off - clkmgr_is_daylightsavings_on(), but no simple flag if it's active.

I'm trying to eliminated my Daylight Saving code... less code is always better!

Joe Hebert

CLKMGR_IS_DAYLIGHTSAVINGS_ON() returns TRUE or FALSE. It returns TRUE when DST is active and FALSE when it?s not. Isn?t that the flag you?re looking for? Or am I missing your point?

jweather

The distinction appears to be between daylight savings mode being ENABLED (true for most of the U.S. year-round, false for Arizona and Hawaii year-round) versus daylight savings mode being ACTIVE (ie, between the start and end dates AND enabled). I don't know enough about it to say for sure which one clkmgr_is_daylightsavings_on() does, but I'm guessing it tells you whether it is ENABLED.

Joe Hebert

I spoke too soon. I hear what you're saying and the help file isn?t all that helpful but I'm guessing your guess sounds more reasonable than my assumption.

GSLogic

Joe Hebert wrote:

CLKMGR_IS_DAYLIGHTSAVINGS_ON() returns TRUE or FALSE. It returns TRUE when DST is active and FALSE when it?s not. Isn?t that the flag you?re looking for? Or am I missing your point?

Hey Joe (that should be a song!)
I thought the same thing until I tested it and found that it only reports if it is enabled. If the AMX engineers reading this, please add a flag for if Daylight Saving is ACTINE!

Joe Hebert

GSLogic wrote:

Hey Joe (that should be a song!)

If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me "where you goin' with that gun in your hand?", I'd have a whole bunch of nickels.