F11 - Time Output Format - Symmetricom XLi User Manual

S S S S S S S S S
where:
= ASCII Start-of-Heading character
<SOH>
= ASCII Carriage Return character
<CR>
= ASCII Line Feed character
<LF>
= year
YYYY
= day-of-year.
DDD
= hours.
HH
= minutes.
MM
= seconds.
SS
= milliseconds.
mmm
= colon separator.
:
= time quality character (see the following table)
Q
The time quality character, "Q", is one of the following characters:
SPACE = Time error is less than time quality flag 1's threshold
. = Time error has exceeded time quality flag 1's threshold
* = Time error has exceeded time quality flag 2's threshold
# = Time error has exceeded time quality flag 3's threshold
? = Time error has exceeded time quality flag 4's threshold, or a reference source is unavailable
For example, to prepare Time on Request, enter:
F9<CR>
Then, to request the current time, enter SHIFT-T on your keyboard. ("T" does not appear). XLi responds:
<SOH>128:20:30:04.357*<CR><LF>
To exit F9 press Ctrl-C on your keyboard.

F11 - Time Output Format

Use function F11 to change the format of the F8 and F9 time output strings. The factory setting for F11
format is null, which enables the default time output formats for F8 and F9:
<SOH>DDD:HH:MM:SSQ<CR><LF>
<SOH>DDD:HH:MM:SS.mmmQ<CR><LF>
To display the default format for F11, enter:
F11
XLi Time & Frequency System
XLi-man, Issue 8, 6/17/2008, Rev. H
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S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
(for F8)
(for F9)
S S S S S S S S S
2
1
5
S S S S
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