# Read Siemens S1500 Date\_And\_Time value

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**Created:** [December 20, 2023, 6:55am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-siemens-s1500-date-and-time-value/83348 "2023-12-20T06:55:12Z")\
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Its been a while, on a project a few years ago, I managed to find this UDT someone made, and got it working for reading and writing to that data type. Not sure if it will fit your use case.

> [@SIEMENS Driver DATE\_AND\_TIME values](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-driver-date-and-time-values/5198/21):
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> Here you go. [Pantalla\_ejemplo\_date\_and\_time\_2019-12-27\_1520.proj](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/8/86d5d779f0cabd72dea62f736f79fec8808fa076.proj) (5.4 KB) [Ignition\_udt\_date\_and\_time.xml](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/2/2bc438550284247dc73b26a9524c55bc893f1a89.xml) (4.7 KB) It’s a DataType that has a value for reading date\_and\_time and a value for writing back to PLC. Might not be the best solution but it works (at least in my case).

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