OmniSTAR 8200HP User Manual
Issue 1.07, 10/2008
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ZDA – Time and Date
The ZDA message contains UTC, the day, the month and the year of the local
time zone.
$GPZDA,hhmmss.ss,DD,MM,YYYY,lh,lm
Field Number Description
1 UTC.
2 Day (0 – 31).
3 Month (0 – 12).
4 Year.
5 Local Zone Description Hours (± 13 Hours). *
6 Local Zone Description Minutes.
Table 25: Description of the ZDA message.
NOTES:
Local zone description is the number of whole hours added to local time
to obtain UTC. The zone description is always negative for eastern
longitudes.
Because the contents of this NMEA message do not change significantly
during a 1-second interval, the receiver outputs this message at a
maximum rate of 1 Hz.