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Conversions

gnss-calendar supports a variety of conversions commonly used in the GNSS community. Every epoch string passed, will be converted to a Python datetime object (UTC).

The following conversions are currently supported. As an example we used the following datetime through all examples: 2022-05-09 12:00:00

Common Date Strings

Type Description Example
Date Date format without time 2022-05-09
Datetime Date format with time 2022-05-09 12:00:00
Datetime with Month Abbreviation Date format with a 3-char month abbreviation 09-May-22 12:00
09-May-2022 12:00
FTP Log Timestamp format used in FTP logs Mon May 09 12:00:00 2022

GNSS Community

Type Description Example
IGS Sitelog IGS sitelog format containing the station name (4/9 character) pots_20220509.log
RINEX v.3 RINEX v.3 filename POTS00DEU_R_20221281200_01H_30S_MO.rnx
RINEX v.2 RINEX v.2 filename pots128m.22o
RINEX Epoch Header RINEX v.3/v.2 epoch header 2022 05 09 12 00 00.0000000
IGS Product Filename (v.3) Long IGS product filename GFZ0OPSULT_20221281200_02D_05M_ORB.SP3.gz
IGS Product Filename (v.2) Old IGS product filename gfu22128_12.sp3.gz
SINEX Solution INdependent EXchange Format 2022:128:43200
MJD Modified Julian Date 59708.5000
Trimble Trimble raw data filename LDRZ202205091200a.T02

GFZ Filenames

Type Description Example
CHAMP Filename used for the CHAMP satellite mission pots22091mz0000.jps
ODC GFZ data centre filename POTS00DEU_00001024_FRO_RX3_MO_
20220509_120000_01H_30S_GFZ.rnx
EPOS GFZ EPOS product filename 2022_128_orb_initial.sp3
Station Information Filename containing station housekeeping information pots_monitor_2022_128_1200.info
Archive Monthly TAR archive OUS200NZL_00001020_RAW_OBS_2022_05.tar
Raw Data GRUAN raw data filename LDB0_RAW_OBS_2022128_1200_15M_01S.jps.gz