About Specifying Amounts of Time to Evaluate

In the Properties window for some nodes, you can specify an amount of time (i.e., a time span) that should be used when evaluating values. For example, consider the following Properties window for a Comparison node that is configured to determine whether or not the Accumulated Time output of a Threshold Statistics node is greater than 3 days.

Acceptable Format for Amounts of Time

The following table describes the values that you can use to specify an amount of time to evaluate. Note that:

These values are not localized, so you must enter them in English.
You can use negative numbers.
You cannot specify a number of months or years because some months and years have a different number of days. Instead, you should specify a number of days (e.g., 30 days or 365 days).

Value	Description	Valid Number Type	Example
s, sec, second, seconds	Specifies a number of seconds.	Integer or decimal	15 seconds
m, min, minute, minutes	Specifies a number of minutes.	Integer or decimal	10.5 min
h, hour, hours	Specifies a number of hours.	Integer or decimal	1 hour
d, day, days	Specifies a number of days. A day is interpreted as 24 hours and does not account for Daylight Savings Time.	Integer	5 d
w, week, weeks	Specifies a number of weeks.	Integer	7 weeks
[ddd].HH:MM:SS	Specifies a number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds.	N/A	300.23:13:22