Creating Timestamps in JMP
Let’s say you wanted to record daily activity in a JMP data table and would like to populate the date rows automatically or need a “time stamp" which represents the time when the new data has been entered as new row.
Steps:
- In a Column, create the amount of rows as you’re planning for your observations.
- Right-click Add Rows - Enter 30.
- Then create 2 rows of dates, today and tomorrow, for example.
- Highlight both of those dates, Right-click then Continue Sequence to end of Table.
The second way we will use the Today argument in the formula editor and format the column as a date and time.
- I created a column, right-clicked for Formula, added the Today argument, and selected OK.
- I’ll manually enter a value and there is my date. However I don’t care for it’s format.
- Under Column Info I’ll format as Time with my date structure preference.
Now whenever I enter data a nice clean timestamp appears.
