Date and time for drawtext

• 06/02/2017 at 12:18 PM #37285
  Goeran

  Hi. Hope someone can understand and maybe help me

  I have made an simple indicator who shows the highs and low in a chart.

  I use “drawtext “to write date or time for the highs and lows

  The problem is I don’t find the right code for time and date. For time I would like to show hhmm as 09.00, 10.20 and so on. Not only 9 or 10.2.

  And for date as 04 May, 10 April and so on.  For date I have wrote as this

  a=(opendate[2]/1000)
  DRAWTEXT(“#a#”, BarIndex[2], high[2]+4, dialog,bold,12) This not work good Shows on the screen like this 20,170.523

  and for time as this
  a=OpenTime[2]/10000
  DRAWTEXT(“#a#”, BarIndex[2], high[2]+0.5, dialog,Bold,12) Time is ok but can be better.

  /Goeran

  

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  06/02/2017 at 7:23 PM #37317
  Nicolas

  Variables can’t store strings. So you’ll always get numbers for months for example. Unless you make a conditional statement for each month : if month=4 then DRAWTEXT (“April”, …)

  Why not use Day + Month + Year to write the date instead of OpenDate? Same for OpenTime, you could use Hour + Minute instead.

  

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  05/10/2024 at 1:15 PM #232526
  repropel

  Hi Nicolas,

  Could you help me with a problem similar to the previous one. In version 12 of the platform, the M appears and I cannot know what date it is.

  Mi código es el siguiente:

  DayN = Date[N] DRAWTEXT("Fecha: #DayN#",barindex,17,Dialog,Italic,10)

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  DayN = Date[N]   DRAWTEXT("Fecha: #DayN#",barindex,17,Dialog,Italic,10)

  Thank you so much.

  

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  05/10/2024 at 3:07 PM #232533
  robertogozzi

  M stands for MILLIONS, date 20240510 is a number over 20M and is displayed as such.

  You need to decompose it into Day, Month, Year, then using the 3 separate values with DRAWTEXT:

  IF (OpenDayOfWeek <> OpenDayOfWeek[1]) AND (OpenDayOfWeek = 2) THEN myDAY = OpenDay myMONTH = OpenMonth myYEAR = OpenYear Drawtext("D:#myDAY#-#myMONTH#-#myYEAR#",BarIndex,highest[20](high) + range) ENDIF RETURN

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  IF (OpenDayOfWeek <> OpenDayOfWeek[1]) AND (OpenDayOfWeek = 2) THEN    myDAY   = OpenDay    myMONTH = OpenMonth    myYEAR  = OpenYear    Drawtext("D:#myDAY#-#myMONTH#-#myYEAR#",BarIndex,highest[20](high) + range) ENDIF RETURN

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  05/10/2024 at 9:14 PM #232542
  repropel

  Hi Roberto,

  This way of visualizing the date has been very useful to me.

  Thank you so much.

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