Time and date

The interface provides a means to retrieve the time and date from a connected RTU. The time and date object can be used as a heartbeat point to determine liveliness of the interface and its connected RTU(s). The user can define a time and date point by setting the Location5 attribute equal to the DNP3 object number 50. This point can provide either a string representation of the RTU time (given in UTC) or the point can be defined to provide an integer value representing the number of seconds elapsed since midnight January 1, 1970. Refer to the PI Point configuration and Startup command files sections of this manual for additional details relating to interface setup and operation. Only one point for the time and date per RTU can be defined.