[Xastir-Dev] Objects not plotting

Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at tc.fluke.com
Tue Jul 22 18:54:53 EDT 2003


On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, dale huguley wrote:

> >>092345z     2345 hours zulu time on 9th day of the month
> >>
> >>092345/     2345 hours local time on 9th day of the month (not
> >>            recommended on the air anymore)
> >>
> >>234517h     23 hours 45 min 17 sec zulu
> >>
> >>10092345    23 hours 45 minutes zulu on october 9th (positionless
> >>            stand-alone weather stations)


> It would be easy enough for me to stick to the "z" only format- a minor
> amount of re-shuffling internally.  But I don't like knowing something
> about a  packet and not transmitting it if possible.  Also I would have
> objects with the time stamp meaning the expiration time and objects with
> the time meaning the time it was parsed- with no designation which is
> which.

What about using the 'h' format for those?  That would be per spec,
and would differentiate them from the others.


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