[AstroPy] Convert GPS time to UTC time

[David Berry]

GPS is offset by 19 seconds from TAI. TAI is itself offset from UTC by an
integer number of seconds that increments each time a leap second occurs.
So it's pretty easy to code, but you need to know what the current UTC-TAI
value is.

As an example, here is how to could be done using pyast. pyast does not yet
support GPS directly, but it's a simple job to add on the extra 19 seconds.

David


import starlink.Ast as Ast

#  Create frames describing UTC and TAI, in seconds. Indicate that values
#  should be formatted using a standard ISO date and time string with 3
#  decimal places in the seconds field.
tai_frame = Ast.TimeFrame( "TimeScale=TAI,Unit=s,Format=iso.3" )
utc_frame = Ast.TimeFrame( "TimeScale=UTC,Unit=s,Format=iso.3" )

#  Get a mapping from TAI to UTC.
tai_to_utc = tai_frame.convert( utc_frame )

#  TAI is GPS plus 19 seconds. Create a Mapping to describe this shift.
gps_to_tai = Ast.ShiftMap( 19.0 )

#  Combine these mappings to get the total GPS to UTC mapping.
gps_to_utc = Ast.CmpMap( gps_to_tai, tai_to_utc )

#  Convert an example UTC date and time string to a floating point
#  value in seconds.
( nc, utc_value ) = utc_frame.unformat( 1, "2013-10-03 12:22:02.1" )

#  Using the above mapping to transform the seconds value to GPS.
gps_value = gps_to_utc.tran( utc_value )

#  Convert the result to a date and time string and print. Use the TAI
#  frame here as a convenience - it's only being used to do the formatting,
#  which is the same for all timescales.
print( tai_frame.format( 1, gps_value ) )



On 6 December 2013 12:29, Hoàng Đức Thường <hoangthuong.hust at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> May anyone help me? I want to write a program convert GPS time to UTC
> time. Then how can I understand the algorithm ?
>
> Thank you !
>
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