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Format 8

   

Provides a time sync status character, year and day of year, time with time zone and DST corrections. Format 8 data structure is:


CR LF I ^ ^YYYY^ DDD ^ HH:MM:SS ^ D±XX CR LF


CHARACTER DESCRIPTOR:
CR Carriage Return
LF Line Feed
I Time Sync Status (space, ?, *)
YYYY Four digit year indication
^ space separator
DDD Day of Year (001-366)
HH Hours (00-23)
: Colon separator
MM Minutes (00-59)
SS Seconds (00-60)
D Daylight Savings Time indicator (S,I,D,O)
± Positive or Negative UTC offset ( ,-) Time Difference from UTC
XX Time Zone Switch Setting ( /- 00 to 12)

Example: 2002 271 12:45:36 S-05


Sync Status Time Synchronized to GPS
Date Day 271 (September 28) in 2002
Time 12:45:36, the time difference is 5 hours behind UTC, standard time

Notes

  1. The leading edge of the first character (CR) marks the on-time point of the data stream.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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