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NMEA 0183

C.4.7 ZDA – Time & Date

The ZDA message contains UTC, the day, the month, the year and the local time zone.

$GP ZDA,hhmmss.s,xx,xx,xxxx,,*hh<CR><LF>

Table C-9 ZDA – Time & Date Message Parameters

Field # Description

1UTC

2Day (01 to 31)

3Month (01 to 12)

4Year

5unused

6unused

hh Checksum

!Note – Fields #5 and #6 are null fields in the Acutime 2000 output. A GPS receiver cannot independently identify the local time zone offsets.

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Caution – If UTC offset is not available, time output will be in GPS time.

Note – GPS time can be used as a time tag for the 1 PPS. The ZDA message comes out 100–500 msec after the PPS.

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Trimble Outdoors AcutimeTM2000 Synchronization Kit manual Table C-9 ZDA Time & Date Message Parameters