Set Study date and Time to current Date and Time

    There is an equipment whose date, time settings are off and looks like vendor is unable to sort it out.


    Been trying out a few tricks to set date/time of incoming studies to current date/time but it has been unsuccessfully.


    I guess I can change Study date/time while leaving series and instance date/time to, say, a day in the future without any issues. This way, at least users will find their studies for the day by searching "Today"


    Any ideas on how to do this?


    Thanks.

    Hi,


    Lua has the power to format the date and time. try something like this:


    [lua]
    Association = dofile("date.lua")
    ImportConverter0 = -- code to set date gets here


    where data.lua comes from:


    LuaDate v2
    Lua Date and Time module for Lua 5.x.
    Jas Latrix


    and then used functions in there to set date and time.


    Marcel

    Thanks Marcel for your quick response.


    I am yet to figure out how to use Lua. Was hoping for a solution outside lua. If that is not possible/easy I guess I will live with the issue. Not a very big deal. Users just have to remember to search for the next days date.


    Regards.

    Hi


    There is a script option to get the date/time, but it is returned in a non DICOM compliant format. So without Lua you would a new release. I can add it to the feature list. But I prefer a Lua solution because the old script options are much less flexible.


    regards,


    Marcel

    Thanks Marcel.
    I actually noticed that the script options were returning date formats that were not accepted or had to be truncated etc.
    I guess it would be of value to incorporate non-lua way in future releases. However, you can consider it based on need/requests. Personally i intent to learn lua some day and this particular issue is not very critical for now.


    Regards.

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