added timestamp for Instrument config

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/qolab/hardware/basic.py b/qolab/hardware/basic.py
index f9a4dee..abc9417 100644
--- a/qolab/hardware/basic.py
+++ b/qolab/hardware/basic.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import yaml
+import time
 from qolab.file_utils import get_next_data_file
 from qolab.tsdb import tsdb_append_metric_for_class_setter_or_getter
 
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ class BasicInstrument:
         # i.e. 'SampleRate' needs getSampleRate() and love to have setSampleRate(value)
         # they will be used to obtain config and set device according to it
         # self.deviceProperties = {'SampleRate', 'TimePerDiv', 'TrigDelay', };
-        self.deviceProperties = set()
+        self.deviceProperties = {'TimeStamp'}
 
     def __repr__(self):
         s = ''
@@ -103,6 +104,9 @@ class BasicInstrument:
             self.deviceProperties.add(p)
             setattr(self, p, v)
 
+    def getTimeStamp(self):
+        return  time.strftime("%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S")
+
     def getHeader(self):
         header = yaml.dump(self.getConfig(), default_flow_style=False, sort_keys=False)
         header = header.split('\n')