topic Change numeric format of recorder scale in FreeMASTER

Change numeric format of recorder scale

scotty — Wed, 17 May 2023 11:11:30 GMT

Dear Michal, FreeMASTER developers and power users,

I use a recorder to monitor the Unix time which is right now around 1684321580. These are ten digits.

Though the variable is an integer value, the scaling shows a decimal fraction with the suffix B (assumingly for "billion" = 10^9).

Is it possible to change the numeric format?

It would be nice to see all digits, preferably with some decimal separators, for example 1,684,321,580 (if the American style is used).

Take care,
michaeL

Re: Change numeric format of recorder scale

MichalH — Wed, 17 May 2023 15:09:32 GMT

Hello Michael,

the way the graphing component renders the Y axis is not easy to change.

I would recommend to post process the variable using linear transformation for example: (a=1, b=-1682892000) so you would rebase your Unix timestamp to May 1st 2023. This way the numeric values would be within a better range and should display better in graphs.

Regards,
Michal

Re: Change numeric format of recorder scale

scotty — Wed, 17 May 2023 16:58:13 GMT

Thank you, Michal, for your prompt response. - This solution sounds reasonable.

I will try it soon. (Today, here is a Holiday.)

Regards,
michaeL

Re: Change numeric format of recorder scale

scotty — Thu, 25 May 2023 18:57:00 GMT

It works:

Here, I used an offset which is related to Thu May 25 2023 18:40:00 GMT+0000.