[evla-sw-discuss] EVLA WIDAR: Delay Model - format and content

[Bryan Butler]

we decided that *either* MJD+fraction or full ISO format was acceptable.

	-bryan


On 11/14/06 12:54, Sonja Vrcic wrote:
>>
>>> 3.  Timestamps.  We work internaly in a double precision MJD and 
>>> fraction
>>> system (LSB is about one microsecond).  Converting that to ISO 8601 
>>> form is easy of course, but I rather suspect that you also will be 
>>> working in some similar system internally, and it might save a few a 
>>> little bother at both ends just to send that.
>>>   
>>
>> Internally our time is in seconds since the "epoch" with a time 
>> resolution of 10ms. These are internally carried in
>> two unsigned integers (32 bits) as that works very nicely with the OS.
> One of the decision from the face-to-face meeting was that  time in the 
> XML messages is always UTC  displayed as defined by ISO 8601.
> 
> 
> Sonja
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