Compiling Date and Time to a readable value

[swanside]

Hello again
I can get the minutes, Seconds Hours, day, month and year from my device, but I cant figure out how to make it readable. Any pointers please? Thanks

[Steve-Mcl]

• Change the buffer parser to output a single value (disable fan out) & set the output type to key/value
• Connect it to a function node containing...

const d = new Date(msg.payload.Year, msg.payload.Month-1, msg.payload.Day, msg.payload.Hour, msg.payload.Minutes, msg.payload.Seconds);
msg.payload = d
return msg;

See: Date - JavaScript | MDN

[swanside]

Cheers Steve.
Did this in the end, gives me just what I need so I dont have to visit the site. Cheers

[Steve-Mcl]

You do realise that that isnt actually using the time from your modbus data right?

this is not how you use a typedInput...

[swanside]

Yeh, I just realized that now

[swanside]

So in the example you gave me, const d = new Date(msg.payload.Year, msg.payload.Month-1, msg.payload.Day, msg.payload.Hour, msg.payload.Minutes, msg.payload.Seconds); msg.payload = d return msg;

Do I need to change the payloads to suite my output.

So I would have msg.payload.minute, msg.payload.second, and so on?

[Steve-Mcl]

@swanside

So I would have msg.payload.minute, msg.payload.second, and so on?

Well, since you already had that

@swanside

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I wrote a solution to suite...

@Steve-Mcl

• Change the buffer parser to output a single value (disable fan out) & set the output type to key/value
• Connect it to a function node containing...

const d = new Date(msg.payload.Year, msg.payload.Month-1, msg.payload.Day, msg.payload.Hour, msg.payload.Minutes, msg.payload.Seconds);
msg.payload = d
return msg;

[swanside]

@Steve-Mcl

const d = new Date(msg.payload.Year, msg.payload.Month-1, msg.payload.Day, msg.payload.Hour, msg.payload.Minutes, msg.payload.Seconds);
msg.payload = d
return msg;

So Sorry.
I get you now. I now have changed it and now it makes sense to me.
Thank you so much for your help.
I guess I need to visit site

[swanside]

Now its correct