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Hi,

This seems like a simple problem but I haven't been able to solve it. I'm trying to export a single line of data from cumulus that I use to tack on to an existing data file. (I have cumulus process but not ftp a csv file and then copy, rename and ftp the processed csvtmp file with a batch file. This works great but I can't seem to get it to output the time/date format we need.
Here's the current webtags:
<#date> <#<time>,<#temp>,<#dew>,<#wspeed>,<#avgbearing>,<#press>,<#rfall>,<#intemp>

What I need is the time stamp in this format:
mm/dd/yyyy hh:nn (that's hour:minute)
I've tried about 10 variations on the initial two tags and only get a space where the time should be. Can someone suggest the correct webtag before I lose my mind? (I'm doing this over a super slow satellite connection so it takes a looong time to debug anything and all data gets uploaded to a remote system where I then have to manually enter all the timestamps if they aren't on the data, to keep the data up to date). I'm starting to think it has a cached copy of a file somewhere and isn't actually seeing any of the changes I make to the csv file. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

A few variations I've tried that don't yield anything but a date and a space e.g. "2012/1/4 ,...rest of the data here). BTW I believe this was working fine with an earlier version of the file so I'm not sure what changed.
<#date> <#<time>,
<#date> <#timehhmmss>
<#date> <#timehhmmss format=hh:nn>,,
<#date> <#timehhmmss format="hh:nn">,
<#date> <#hour>:<#minute>,

Thanks!

Tim

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However; <#time> is the date and time with some "English" - this (below) should have worked !Double check your syntax and make sure your editor isn't doing anything strange with < and >

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Success!

Thanks beteljuice!

Nothing like a 20 second delay between every click you do and a response by the remote computer to make you go slowly crazy while debugging.

I think the stray "<" was the culprit. That and the fact that the format function seems to require quotes around all text despite what the webtags documentation says: From 1.9.1 most time webtags will accept an option 'format' parameter, e.g: <#YearTempHT format=hh:nn> (http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Webtags#Ti ... _Parameter). This example does not work, (at least not for me, when applied to the <#date> function). I'm guessing the second example with the quotes would work.

This sequence produces the desired result:
<#date> <#time format="hh:nn">,<#temp>,<#dew>,<#wspeed>,<#avgbearing>,<#press>,<#rfall>,<#intemp>

This also works and is a bit cleaner:
<#time format="mm/dd/yyyy hh:nn">,<#temp>,<#dew>,<#wspeed>,<#avgbearing>,<#press>,<#rfall>,<#intemp>

I can't get this to fail. <#date format=hh:nn> without any quotes works fine for me, producing the text 08:27 just now. I don't know why it apparently doesn't work for you. I'm using a number of tags with the format parameter and no quotes, and they all work as documented.

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Possibly 'overlooked' the space he wanted which then necessitated the quotes ?

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