Format 3

Provides a format identifier, time sync status character, year-month-day, time with time zone and DST corrections, time difference from UTC, standard time/DST indicator, leap second indicator and on-time marker. Format 3 data structure is:

FFFFI^YYYYmmdd^HHMMSS±HHMMD L # CR LF

CHARACTER DESCRIPTOR:
FFFF	Format Identifier (0003)
I	Time Sync Status (Space, ? *)
^	space separator
YYYY	Year (2002, 2003, 2004, etc.)
mm	Month Number (01-12)
dd	Day of the Month (01-31)
HH	Hours (00-23)
MM	Minutes (00-59)
SS	Seconds (00-60)
±	Positive or Negative UTC offset ( ,-) Time Difference from UTC
HHMM	UTC Time Difference Hours, Minutes (00:00-23:00)
D	Daylight Saving Time Indicator (S,I,D,O)
L	Leap Second Indicator (space, L)
#	On time point
CR	Carriage Return
LF	Line Feed

Example: 0003 20021219 124536-0500S #

Data Format	3
Sync Status	Time Synchronized to GPS
Date	December 19, 2002
Time	12:45:36 EST, the time difference is 5 hours behind UTC, standard time
Second	No leap second is scheduled for this month.

Notes

The time sync status character I is defined as described below:
(Space) = Whenever the front panel Time Sync lamp is green.
? = When the receiver is unable to track any satellites and the Time Sync lamp is red.
* = The receiver time is derived from the battery backed clock or set manually through the Serial Setup Interface.
The time difference from UTC, ±HHMM, is selected when the serial comm or remote port is configured. A time difference of -0500 represents eastern time. UTC is represented by 0000.

The Daylight Saving Time indicator D is defined as:

S	During periods of standard time for the selected DST schedule.
I	During the 24-hour period preceding the change into DST
D	During periods of Daylight Saving Time for the selected DST schedule
O	During the 24-hour period preceding the change out of DST

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