$TIME not firing onBarsChanged event

[cosgrove]

In troubleshooting another problem, it was suggested to us to subscribe to the symbol "$TIME" in order to keep a data stream coming in continuously during the overnight hours.

When I start a chart for $TIME in the eSignal UI I see that a bar is recorded every minute as expected.

But in our application, the $TIME symbol does not raise any of the barsChanged events that we are expecting.

Is this correct behavior? Should we be getting an OnBarsChanged event if we subscribe to $TIME ?

-tomas

[eSignal_AveryH]

cosgrove,

$TIME is more for real time data updates for the data manager, not the history servers. Each second you should get at time update.