How to get real date and time from dataset?

There's a 32-post long thread started in 2012 on the topic.

  • There are some script conversions to extract the date.
  • There is an Expression Language conversion in post #27 for "the old Siemens Date_AndTime" datatype to a string (usually a bad idea but could be modified to give a timestamp).
  • There seems to be a simple solution in post #31, March 2024.