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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon jonnew

Unix time in oat-record

Open mmyros opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

Hi Jon,

My colleague asked me if it is possible to save "unix time" in the json file in addition to sample number. This is needed to match open-ephys and webcam. An OE plugin for this has already been created. Is it possible to do this with Oat? Also, what are your thoughts on reliability of such timestamps?

Related discussion here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/open-ephys/Di5LfZbLKic

Thanks!

mmyros avatar Aug 13 '16 01:08 mmyros

Yes.

  • I'm currently doing an oat-record refactor that will allow each sample to be published with a timestamp. Maybe a week to get that done.
  • Timestamps across computers will not be comparable unless you are careful to synchronize the computers using an NTP before each run. They will drift after each sync.

jonnew avatar Aug 15 '16 15:08 jonnew