Date Time Source with Weekly plan not acting as expected

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Lars Christian J2 asked Oct 26, '20 Lars Christian J2 answered Oct 27, '20

Date Time Source with Weekly plan not acting as expected

It seems like when I am using the Weekly option for the Date Time Source and Time Mode "Use Model Start Date/Time" it doesn't use week day to determine when to jump into the arrival DateTimeSource.fsmschedule.

In the attached model I have set the model start to Sunday, but it starts generating tokens immidiately?

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FlexSim 20.2.3

flexsim 20.2.3 date time source

datetime.png (164.2 KiB)

datetimesource.fsm (242.2 KiB)

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tannerp commented · Oct 26, 2020 at 10:39 PM

@Lars Christian J2, it looks like this is a bug. From what I can tell from clicking on the "Advanced" button, the model always wants to start on a Monday, regardless of what day you select when using the Model Date/Time in the "Time Mode" picklist.

Are you able to start on a Monday for the sake of getting your model to work? If not, we can try to offset things so that it behaves correctly.

@Phil BoBo @Jordan Johnson For what it's worth, I checked this behavior in a 2019 model and it still has the same issue. Was this intentional?

Reference model in 2019: date time bug check 2019.fsm

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date-time-bug-check-2019.fsm (18.7 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2020-10-27T05:48:16Z

Lars Christian J2 answered Oct 27, '20

Thanks @tanner.p. I made a work around. I was just wondering why this bug is still present several years after it was reported the first time.

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