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NMEA ZDA message

Popular NMEA messages

Time and date (ZDA)

Message NMEA-Standard-ZDA
Time and date
Comment UTC, day, month, year and local time zone.
Information Number of fields: 9
Structure $xxZDA,time,day,month,year,ltzh,ltzn*cs\r\n
Example $GPZDA,082710.00,16,09,2002,00,00*64\r\n
Payload
Field Name Format Unit Example Description
0 xxZDA string - $GPZDA ZDA Message ID (xx = current Talker ID)
1 time hhmmss.ss - 082710.00 UTC Time. See section UTC representation in the integration manual for details.
2 day dd day 16 UTC day (range: 1-31)
3 month mm month 09 UTC month (range: 1-12)
4 year yyyy year 2002 UTC year
5 ltzh xx - 00 Local time zone hours (fixed field, always 00)
6 ltzn zz - 00 Local time zone minutes (fixed field, always 00)
7 cs hexadecimal - *64 Checksum
8 CRLF character - - Carriage return and line feed
Based on NMEA documentation provided by u-blox.

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