CCSDS standard

William Thompson thompson at orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov
Tue Jul 9 13:17:54 EDT 1996


sla at umbra.ucolick.org (Steve Allen) writes:

>In article <4rrbk5$qi2 at post.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
>William Thompson <thompson at orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov> wrote:

>>                  CCSDS RECOMMENDATION FOR TIME CODE FORMATS

>>The format for ASCII Time Code A is as follows:
>>
>>        YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.d->dZ

>>        YYYY    =       Year in four-character subfield with values 0001-9999

>Looks remarkably similar to ISO.

As I said, the CCSDS standard is a subset of ISO-8601.

Bill Thompson




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