Is this the expected behaviour of getValue("rawtime",##)?

[waynecd]

In the following code "getValue("rawtime", -vOSet);" returns the date/time stamp of the last loaded bar (bar index 0) instead of the date/time stamp of the first bar loaded (bar index -683).

Shouldn't it return the date/time stamp of bar -683?

debug output:

9: Idx of 1st loaded bar- -683, vStartTime- 1297459260, The GMTDate is: Fri Feb 11 2011 16:21:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

Which is the date/time stamp of the last bar (index 0) instead of the date/time stamp of the first bar on the chart at index -683.
(efs was run on symbol "ES #F" on Sunday Feb 13 at 12 noon on a TimeTemplate of "Intraday Default" with 5 days,
"Start Time" = 9:30, and "End Time" = 16:30)

//returns date/time of last loaded bar,i.e. barIdx 0 maybe because rawtime of 1st bar == 0??
var bInit = false;
function main() {
    var vOSet,vStartTime,GMTDateObject;
    if (bInit == false) {
        bInit = true;
        vOSet = getOldestBarIndex();//oldest bar index of all bars loaded
        vStartTime = getValue("rawtime", -vOSet); //returns date/time of last loaded bar,i.e. barIdx 0 maybe because rawtime of 1st bar == 0??
        GMTDateObject = new Date(vStartTime*1000); //converts rawtime into a local time date object//used only for debug purposes
        debugPrintln("9: Idx of 1st loaded bar- "+vOSet + ",  vStartTime- " + vStartTime+", The GMTDate is: "+GMTDateObject);
    }
} 

Wayne

[waynecd]

I tried to delete the message but couldn't.

Anyway, the issue is that the index value (vOSet) for:

getValue("rawtime", -vOSet); 

is reversed so index for the firs plotted bar is 1 and the last is 683. It is in reverse order of the normal bar index system.

Wayne