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Well, the original question was "What are the most common date formatters?" not the most useful date formatter. Maybe someone else here could chime in regarding Oracle, but I just spent the last three hours querying and dumping results using Oracle Apps and the date/time format was: 09-OCT-2012 08:59:28 which works out to %<%d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S>T except for the capitalization. I'm guessing that the month name is localized to the default language setting for the profile of the user...

I'm very disappointed you didn't say "%^<%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%3uZ>T" /J

I was just adding a some links to YouTube clips demonstrating the usage of the WireFlow ProgressBar module and now I see it beeing referenced ;-) As hooovahh mentioned the module allows any application to get ProgressBar functionality with optional delay and cancel button. It is also pretty easy to create your own customized ProgressBar window. hooovahh: would you like to see the functional global approach added to the palettes? (just send me a PM if you have other requests) /J

Here's one I posted a while back that you just drop in any For Loop that may take a while. It will pop itself open and show progress if a certain amount of time has elapsed and the loop isn't halfway done yet. Darren's Weekly Nugget 06/26/2006

I have created a plugin for the Task Manager that can be used from inside an executable, thanks to Michael and his guide to Plug-in Architecture using Packed Project Libraries. If you aren't familiar with PPLs, I'd highly recommend at least a quick glance through this guide. LabVIEW Task Manager Application.zip I took Mike's example and created a plugin that launches the task manager. You can add it to your application as an Easter Egg (set it to load on some secret key combination). You don't have to distribute this plugin with your application, but if you are called to debug something on a deployed system, you can just take this plugin, drop it at the designated place (same as the exe in this example) and enter the key combination to launch it from within the application. To see this in action, launch ..\LabVIEW Task Manager Application\build\testApp.exe. If "LabVIEW Task Manager.lvlibp" exists in the same folder as the exe, your key combination will bring it up.