<div dir="ltr">Just for the record, this is what we ended up with.<br><div><div><div><br>    LAYER<br>        NAME 'timestamp'<br>        TYPE POINT<br>        STATUS ON<br><br>        TRANSFORM FALSE<br>        UNITS PIXELS<br><br>        VALIDATION<br>            'time_idx1' "^'[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}'$"<br>            'min' '^[0-9]+$'<br>        END<br>        <br>        CONNECTIONTYPE PostGIS<br>        CONNECTION "..."<br>        PROCESSING "CLOSE_CONNECTION=DEFER"<br><br>        DATA "bbox from (<br>            SELECT<br>                0 id,<br>                (%time_idx1%::timestamp + INTERVAL '%min% minute') as tstamp,<br>                ST_MakePoint(5, 5) as bbox<br>        ) as subquery using unique id using srid=-1"<br><br>        LABELITEM tstamp<br>        CLASS<br>            LABEL<br>                TYPE TRUETYPE<br>                FONT calibri<br>                COLOR 254 254 254<br>                OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0<br>                #OUTLINEWIDTH 1<br>                SIZE 12<br>                POSITION lr<br>            END<br>        END<br>    END<br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Steve.Lime@state.mn.us" target="_blank">Steve.Lime@state.mn.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Should be very doable – I like a challenge. You’re not saying much about how you were going about it. I created a quick test that drops the current time in the
 center of the map where the time is from the now() function in PostgreSQL. See:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<a href="http://maps1.dnr.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/mapserv64?mode=map&map=/usr/local/mapserver/apps/test/timestamp/test.map" target="_blank">
http://maps1.dnr.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/mapserv64?mode=map&map=/usr/local/mapserver/apps/test/timestamp/test.map</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">If you refresh it you’ll get the timestamp associated. Presumably you could format this to your liking using the various utilities in PostgreSQL. To do this I
 had to create a dummy table in my database that contained a single dummy column, and I added 1 row to it. That allowed me to get useful SQL generated via MapServer. The timestamp layer looks like:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d"> LAYER<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">    NAME “timestamp”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">    TRANSFORM FALSE<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">    CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">    CONNECTION “database of your choice”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">    DATA "the_geom FROM (SELECT ST_MakePoint(.50, .50) AS the_geom, NOW() AS tstamp, dummy_column FROM dummy_table) AS foo USING UNIQUE dummy_column USING SRID=-1"<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">    LABELITEM tstamp<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">        FONT “verdana-bold”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">        COLOR 0 0 0<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">        SIZE 12<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">        POSITION CC<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">To change the location of the point you’d edit the coordinates inside the ST_MakePoint() function. Hope it helps.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Steve<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mapserver-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mapserver-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 21, 2015 4:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mapserver-dev] Adding a time index stamp to returned image.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All, <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m using a POSTGRES connection an trying to place a timestamp text chunk into the corner of a image from Postgres.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve got a method for generating a set of images for a time-lapse movie (<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7spkctc2mmtfmhc/out4.mp4?dl=0" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/7spkctc2mmtfmhc/out4.mp4?dl=0</a>), but need to add a timestamp to each
 of the images upon output.  I’m not having much luck though outputting a seemingly simple item from Postgres.  Fro some reason TimeStamps are not completely understood by MapServer.  Maybe I need to cast the timestamp to a text string or something . . .<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thoughts??<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">bobb<u></u><u></u></p>
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