1069   UTC time ill-defined

Created: 22 Mar 2013

Status: In Force (green)

Part: Part 8-1 (2011; Edition 2)

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Clause: Annex F2.3

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Category: Issue for edition 2 of this part

Issue

The current wording does not allow to deduce any mapping to TimeStamp. It does not tell there is a fractional second field and a time quality field. In addition, it redefines the time scale (without mentioning leap seconds), but such a definition should exist at only one place in the whole standard suite (in 7-2). 8-1 should only define encodings, not the basic type.

Uppercase-lowercase is wrong

Proposal

Remove the definition and refer to the 7-2 type.

n) UTC Time should be changed to

n) UTC TIME - mapped to a 64-bit value ‘ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssffffffffffffffffffffffffqqqqqqqq’B