Update PAC Date over c-bus?

I've just transferred an updated project from Piced to a PAC over c-bus, and the time is (on the PAC) is correct but it's set the date to 1/1/2008.

Is it possible to update the PAC date over c-bus, is there a command I can use? It's so nice not having to go under the stairs to connect by USB, but it seems that connecting via c-bus mucks up the date.

Thank in advance.

Alex

 

If you have touch screen or DLT switch you can change the time on one of them and every thing else will follow.

 

in the Piced Transfer menu there is a "control unit" sub-menu that allows you to set the time to the PC time. I've never tried this for a PAC over Cbus though. Let me know if it works

 

Thanks Graham, I don't sadly - and I did see that on another post mods!

 

Hi Ashley, unfortunately not.

Piced connected via C-Bus (local c-gate), 'Connect to Unit' ticked.

When I set the time on the Piced menu bar, I get the below in the log;

24/01/2022 08:40:14 Info : Clock adjusted from 08:40:13 31/01/2022 to 08:40:14 24/01/2022

but later on the PAC sends another Time refresh back to the wrong date/time.

31/01/2022 08:37:58 Date/Time: Received C-Bus message to set date to 01/01/2008 (unit 19)
31/01/2022 08:37:58 Date/Time: Received C-Bus message to set time to 09:33:44 (unit 19)

Today I'll connect via USB and see if there is different behaviour.

 

Somewhat as per my comment the other day here: https://www.cbusforums.com/threads/ctc-time-problem-after-power-loss.9103/#post-58497

what about from the c-gate terminal issuing "CLOCK DATE //networkname/254/223 yyyy-mm-dd" where the latter is the date in the obvious format.

 

Perfect, thank you.

And for the Windows users out there, you can use task scheduler to run a batch script very easily.

Install ncat (https://nmap.org/ncat/) then create a batch scipt as below.

@echo off
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime /value') do set "dt=%%a"
set "YY=%dt:~2,2%" & set "YYYY=%dt:~0,4%" & set "MM=%dt:~4,2%" & set "DD=%dt:~6,2%"
set "HH=%dt:~8,2%" & set "Min=%dt:~10,2%" & set "Sec=%dt:~12,2%" & set "MS=%dt:~15,3%"
set "datestamp=%YYYY%-%MM%-%DD%"
echo CLOCK DATE //networkname/254/223 %datestamp% | ncat 127.0.0.1 20023
quit
quit


If your time creeps you can use this one:

@echo off
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime /value') do set "dt=%%a"
set "YY=%dt:~2,2%" & set "YYYY=%dt:~0,4%" & set "MM=%dt:~4,2%" & set "DD=%dt:~6,2%"
set "HH=%dt:~8,2%" & set "Min=%dt:~10,2%" & set "Sec=%dt:~12,2%" & set "MS=%dt:~15,3%"
set "datestamp=%YYYY%-%MM%-%DD%"
set "timestamp=%HH%:%Min%:%Sec%"
echo CLOCK TIME //networkname/254/223 %timestamp% | ncat 127.0.0.1 20023

Thanks so much cmlp