# Exporting data from simple chart

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-data-from-simple-chart/2552>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 25, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-data-from-simple-chart/2552 "2011-01-25T22:52:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![PenCapBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9bcb4/32.png) [@PenCapBlue](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/PenCapBlue)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-data-from-simple-chart/2552/1 "2011-01-25T22:52:11Z")

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I have a table in a database with a column for temperature and a column for time. Selections from this table are plotted on an Easy Chart component. When the save button is clicked, the data exported does not use the complete timestamp. The seconds are left off.

How can I manipulate the exported data to include the complete timestamp?

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**Author:** ![PenCapBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9bcb4/32.png) [@PenCapBlue](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/PenCapBlue)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-data-from-simple-chart/2552/2 "2011-01-26T00:10:27Z")

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Allow me to gracefully retract this question. I found my error.

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**Author:** ![diat150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@diat150](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diat150)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-data-from-simple-chart/2552/3 "2011-01-26T10:19:15Z")

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can you post the solution. I have the same issue and just havent gotten around to trying to find what was going on.

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**Author:** ![PenCapBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9bcb4/32.png) [@PenCapBlue](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/PenCapBlue)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-data-from-simple-chart/2552/4 "2011-01-27T21:52:37Z")

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Select the cells in question, right click on selected cells and click format cells. The field labeled “type” reads “m/d/yyyy h:mm” by default. Modify the entry to match the following format: m/d/yyyy h:mm:ss".