Re: Running-Timer

[Ray Henry <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Hi Kurtis

873 hours isn't that long in Linux time. <g>  There was a little timer 
program written in tickle by Don Libes of Nist.  Something like that 
could rather easily be built into tkemc and would give you access not 
only to accumulated time but time from the start of a file to the end.

The time variables could be stored in the var file as a separate number.  
Program run time could be stored as one of those hot messages in a 
program comment at the start of a file.

http://www.mel.nist.gov/div826/src/stopwatch/

is the main page for it.  You can download from there.  I had to edit it 
just a bit to make a stand alone unit.  A little editing would allow it 
to run within tkemc.

Ray


On Monday 23 December 2002 11:13 am, you wrote:
> The Time out of E-stop is what I am after, but the running time of EMC
> would be nice to have logged as well.
> The log could read: 3,153,600 glitch-free seconds - and counting!  : )
>
> Kurtis
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]On Behalf Of Paul
> > Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 7:26 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: Re: Running-Timer
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Kurtis
> >
> > One of the multitude of internal variables used by EMC is a timer -
> > This records the time EMC is running in seconds to six decimal
> > places.
> >
> > It wouldn't take much to save this data to a file each time EMC
> > is shut down..
> >  If you were looking for the time spent out of E-stop and
> > actually moving,
> > this might require a little more effort.
> >
> > Regards, Paul.
> >
> > On Friday 20 Dec 2002 6:52 pm, Kurtis Martineau wrote:
> > > Has anyone incorporated a accumulating timer to keep track of
> >
> > the amount of
> >
> > > time a machine is on?  I would like to keep track of this in a way
> > > that would permit EMC and/or the PC to be shut down and rebooted,
> > > and still retain the accumulated running time of the machine under
> > > control.