[time-nuts] Most popular NMEA sentence with date and time?

Jim Harman j99harman at gmail.com
Mon Jul 22 20:45:34 UTC 2019


With a multiplexed display you should be able to do it all with one
processor.

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 4:42 PM Jim Harman <j99harman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Correction: RMC has date also later in the sentence.
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 4:38 PM Jim Harman <j99harman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> RMC is very common but gives time only.
>> ZDA gives date and time.
>>
>> Look for the Tinygps++ library for easy to use NMEA decoding in the
>> Arduino world.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 4:02 PM David Van Horn via time-nuts <
>> time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm helping a friend with a hobby project, a "Countdown To Christmas"
>>> clock.
>>> I haven't looked at the NMEA docs in a while or three..  What's the most
>>> widely supported sentence(s) that will give me date and time?
>>>
>>> We're doing one Arduino to grab the data from GPS and talk to the
>>> others, which each drive one digit of the display selectable by straps so
>>> that all the digits will be identical except for their strap settings.
>>>
>>> --
>>> David VanHorn
>>> Lead Hardware Engineer
>>>
>>> Backcountry Access, Inc.
>>> 2820 Wilderness Pl, Unit H
>>> Boulder, CO  80301 USA
>>> phone: 303-417-1345  x110
>>> email: david.vanhorn at backcountryaccess.com<mailto:
>>> david.vanhorn at backcountryaccess.com>
>>>
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