# Show text field changing every time step from programmable filter

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-text-field-changing-every-time-step-from-programmable-filter/1469
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 14, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-text-field-changing-every-time-step-from-programmable-filter/1469 "2019-03-14T13:27:21Z")
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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-text-field-changing-every-time-step-from-programmable-filter/1469/5 "2019-04-11T15:34:51Z")

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> [@gromaxe](#):
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> Having time units like _Hours since …_ , how to get date from timestep value?

I’m afraid I don’t know what your timestep values represent, and I’m not that versed in Python date handling to offer suggestions.

> [@gromaxe](#):
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> They are interpreted by Paraview as int, and this is source of my problem.

I think you are saying ParaView is displaying a time value that isn’t in your dataset. It is displaying the time requested in ParaView, but the data displayed is the closest available timestep, so there is indeed a mismatch in that regard. I suppose you could round the ParaView time to the closest one in your time array with some Python function.

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