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Re: [MTList] Time problem in ASCII data file



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> You can then change that into 1530 by changing it with hhmm format
> procedure.

Yep.

> Then the obvious thing is to change it text format.

No. Leave it alone. Just save it as a .txt file and it will be saved as
1530.

> That gives you 0.645833. You have lost 1530 which is what you want. 

TS can read 15:30 so I'm not sure what the problem is. 

Check the date format of your file and make sure it's compatible. No
2-digit years. If it is okay, the next most likely thing is duplicate or
out of order entries. That will choke TS. I have to clean up most ascii
files, deleting duplicate records and records with a value of zero,
before they will chart properly. Quote.com data has an extra PITA. Their
times are the start of the bar and TS expects time to be the end of the
bar. So, you have to add the bar interval to all times.

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  Dennis