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USING TIME MANAGEMENT
When creating data tags, the server tags will be accessible via the mapping button. A client
tag can be linked to one of the server’s tags. Once used in the database, reading or writing this
tag will access the server with the appropriate command and action with no further
programming necessary. If the server tag is related to a PLC, changing the client tag will
impact on the server, which in turn will reflect the change in the PLC.
Note: The server tag list provided in the client database is updated every time the client
Crimson database is opened. Therefore, if the server database is modified and new tags are
created, reopening the client database will update the server tag list and the newly created tags
will be available for mapping in the client.
USING TIME MANAGEMENT
Crimson contains facilities to allow you to synchronize the time and date within the
CSMSTRSX to a variety of sources. The time manager is also capable of maintaining
information about the Master’s current time-zone, and whether daylight saving time is
currently enabled. In fact, having accurate time-zone information available is a vital to proper
synchronization, as the various synchronization methods are all designed to work with
Universal Coordinated Time, also known as UTC or Greenwich Mean Time. This protocol
works over Ethernet. The operator interface can then either act as a client, requesting the time,
and/or a server, providing the time. Note that the server implementation does not currently
support third party clients.
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