GroundVehicle.Epoch Property

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Description

The current GroundVehicle date and time in International Atomic Time (TAI) in the Modified Julian Date format. The returned value has units of days, measured from January 5, 1941 at 12:00:00.000 TAI.

Changing the value of this property does not cause the GroundVehicle's state to be propagated - the GroundVehicle's state will not be changed. In order to propagate a GroundVehicle to a desired epoch, use the Step command.

Timing Precision Mode

This page describes functionality in nanosecond timing precision mode.

Click here to see the documentation for this object in millisecond timing precision mode.

Attributes

Type:	timespan
Access:	read/write
Units:	day
Default Value:	"Jan 01 2020 00:00:00.000000000"

Syntax

myTimeSpan1 = myGroundVehicle1.Epoch;

myGroundVehicle1.Epoch = myTimeSpan1;