Spacecraft.EpochText Property

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Description

The current Spacecraft date and time in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The returned time is in the Gregorian time format of "Mmm DD YYYY HH:MM:SS.SSS", where Mmm stands for the first three (3) letters of the month; DD stands for the day of month; YYYY stands for the 4-digit year; for millisecond mode, HH:MM:SS.SSS refers to hours, minutes, and seconds to milliseconds; and for nanosecond mode HH:MM:SS.SSSSSSSSS refers to hours, minutes, and seconds to nanoseconds.

 

Timing Precision Mode

This page describes functionality in millisecond timing precision mode. Millisecond timing precision mode is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. We recommend that you migrate your Mission Plans to nanosecond timing precision mode.

 

Attributes

Type:

string

Access:

read

 

Syntax

myString1 = mySpacecraft1.EpochText;

 

See also

Spacecraft Object

Spacecraft Propagation Guide

Coverage and Contact Analysis Guide