Formatted Dates
Gives a list of times in different formats.Available for these objects: Scenario
Type: Time-varying data.
Availability: Reports | Graphs | Dynamic Displays | Strip Charts
Data Provider Elements
| Name | Dimension | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Date | Real Number or Text | Time. |
| Epoch Seconds | Unitless | Text | Time elapsed past the scenario epoch expressed as seconds. |
| Julian Date | Unitless | Text | Coordinated Universal Time. Displayed in the Julian Date format. The Julian Date is given as the number of days from GMT Noon on 1 January, 4713 B.C. |
| Julian Ephemeris Date | Unitless | Text | Terrestrial Dynamic Time (TDT), now replaced by Terrestrial Time (TT). Displayed in Julian Date format. TDT is equal to Atomic Time (TAI) plus 32.184 seconds. |
| Julian Date TDB | Unitless | Text | A Barycentric Dynamical Time displayed in Julian date format. |
| Modified Julian Date | Unitless | Text | Coordinated Universal Time. Julian date, shifted by 2400000.5 days (i.e. MJD = JD - 2400000.5). |
| Jul Date Offset | Unitless | Text | Number of days elapsed past a user defined epoch. |
| Julian UTC | Unitless | Text | Coordinated Universal Time. Displayed in day of year format, with two digits representing the year (182/05 12:00:00.000) (ddd/yy hh:mm:ss.sss). |
| Julian LCL | Unitless | Text | Local Time, displayed in day of year format, with two digits representing the year (182/05 08:00:00.000) (ddd/yy hh:mm:ss.sss). |
| Epoch Minutes | Unitless | Text | Time elapsed past the scenario epoch expressed as minutes. |
| Epoch Hours | Unitless | Text | Time elapsed past the scenario epoch expressed as hours. |
| Epoch Days | Unitless | Text | Time elapsed past the scenario epoch expressed as days. |
| Epoch Years | Unitless | Text | Time elapsed past the scenario epoch expressed as years (365.25 days). |
| YYDDD.ddd | Unitless | Text | Coordinated Universal Time. Displayed in SGP4 Epoch date format (05182.50000000). |
| Julian4 UTC | Unitless | Text | Coordinated Universal Time. Displayed in day of year format, with four digits representing the year (306/2000 00:00:00.0000). |
| YYYYDDD.hhmmss | Unitless | Text | Coordinated Universal Time. Displayed in YYYYDDD.hhmmss format (2005182.120000). |
| YYYY:MM:DD:HH:MM:SS.sss Time | Unitless | Text | Coordinated Universal Time. Displayed in the indicated format (2007:05:08:12:00:00.000). |
| Mission Elapsed | Unitless | Text | Time elapsed past the scenario epoch. The format is number of days / time (121/18:30:00.000). |
| YYYYMMDD.ddd | Unitless | Text | Coordinated Universal Time. Displayed in YYYYMMDD.ddd format (20050701.50000000). |
| Gregorian UTC | Unitless | Text | Coordinated Universal Time. Displayed in Gregorian format (1 Nov 2000 00:00:00.0000). |
| Gregorian LCL | Unitless | Text | Local Time, displayed in Gregorian format (1 Nov 2000 00:00:00.0000). |
| Gregorian LCL Timezone | Unitless | Text | Local Time, displayed in Gregorian format with UTC offset (1 Nov 2000 00:00:00.0000-05:00). |
| YYYY/MM/DD Time | Unitless | Text | Coordinated Universal Time. Displayed in YYYY/MM/DD format (2005/07/01 12:00:00.000). |
| GMT System | Unitless | Text | Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) based on Coordinated Universal Time. The format is number of days / number of seconds and year (182/43200 2005). |
| Gregorian TDT | Unitless | Text | Terrestrial Dynamic Time (TDT), now replaced by Terrestrial Time (TT). Displayed in Gregorian format (1 Jul 2005 12:01:04.184). TDT is equal to Atomic Time (TAI) plus 32.184 seconds. |
| Gregorian TDB | Unitless | Text | Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB). Displayed in Gregorian format (1 Nov 2000 00:00:00.0000). Time scale associated with the solar system barycenter in general relativity. TDB is related to TDT by a periodic oscillation whose largest contribution arises from the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit about the Sun. |
| Gregorian TAI | Unitless | Text | International Atomic Time (TAI). Displayed in Gregorian format (1 Jul 2005 12:00:32.000). Can be defined by: TAI = TDT - 32.184 = UTC + (number of leap seconds). |
| Julian TAI | Unitless | Text | International Atomic Time (TAI). Displayed in Julian Date format (182/05 12:00:32.000). Can be defined by: TAI = TDT - 32.184 = UTC + (number of leap seconds). |
| Gregorian GPS Time | Unitless | Text | GPS time. Displayed in Gregorian format. In STK, GPS time is defined as UTC plus the number of leap seconds since 1 Jan 1980. |
| GPS Time | Unitless | Text | GPS time. Displayed as the weeks:seconds from 1 Jan 1980 00:00:00.00 (i.e. 1329:475213.000). In STK, GPS time is defined as UTC plus the number of leap seconds since 1 Jan 1980. |
| GPS Z Count | Unitless | Text | Time elapsed since the GPS reference epoch (1 Jan 1980 00:00:00.00 UTC), measured in 1.5 second increments. |
| DD/MM/YYYY Time | Unitless | Text | Coordinated Universal Time. Displayed in the form DD/MM/YYYY and time (i.e. 01/07/2005 12:00:00.000). |
| Earth Canonical Time | Unitless | Text | Time elapsed past the scenario epoch. Earth Canonical Time (ECT) is expressed in terms of ETC units where 1 ETC unit = 13.44686457 minutes. |
| Sun Canonical Time | Unitless | Text | Time elapsed past the scenario epoch. Sun Canonical Time (SCT) is expressed in terms of STC units where 1 STC unit = approximately 1400 hours. |
| ISO8601 YMD UTC | Unitless | Text | UTC date and time formatted as YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sss where YYYY is the 4 digit year, MM is the two digit month, DD is the 2 digit day of the month, HH is the two digit hour, mm is the two digit minute and SS.SSS is a floating point representation of seconds into the minute where the precision is specified via the time precision setting. |
| ISO8601 YMD LCL Timezone | Unitless | Text | Local Time, displayed as YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sssPaa:bb where YYYY is the 4 digit year, MM is the two digit month, DD is the 2 digit day of the month, hh is the two digit hour, mm is the two digit minute and ss.sss is a floating point representation of seconds into the minute where the precision is specified via the time precision setting. The Paa:bb suffix represents the UTC offset time where P is either '+' or '-', aa is the hours, and bb the minutes that represents the time difference between the local time zone and UTC. For example, a date time in US Eastern Standard Time would be expressed as 2000-11-01T12:00:00.000-05:00. |
| ISO8601 YD UTC | Unitless | Text | UTC date and time formatted as YYYY-DDDThh:mm:ss.sss where YYYY is the 4 digit year, DDD is the 3 digit day of the year, HH is the two digit hour, mm is the two digit minute and SS.SSS is a floating point representation of seconds into the minute where the precision is specified via the time precision setting. |
| ISO8601 YMD UTC Date | Unitless | Text | UTC date formatted as YYYY-MM-DD where YYYY is the 4 digit year, MM is the two digit month, DD is the 2 digit day of the month. Time is not provided. |
| MJDs UTC | Unitless | Text | Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Displayed in a day count format consisting of a two-word representation of time, expressed in the format MJD:secsIntoDay, where MJD denotes the modified Julian day number (of the UTC day) and secsIntoDay represents the number of seconds since midnight of the day indicated by MJD. |
| MJDs TAI | Unitless | Text | International Atomic Time (TAI). Displayed in a day count format consisting of a two-word representation of time, expressed in the format MJD:secsIntoDay, where MJD denotes the modified Julian day number (of the TAI day) and secsIntoDay represents the number of seconds since midnight of the day indicated by MJD. Can be defined by: TAI = TDT - 32.184 = UTC + (number of leap seconds). |