net.sf.marineapi.nmea.sentence
Interface ZDASentence

All Superinterfaces:

DateSentence, Sentence, TimeSentence

public interface ZDASentence
extends TimeSentence, DateSentence

UTC time and date with local time zone offset.

Example:
$GPZDA,032915,07,08,2004,00,00*4D

Version:

$Revision: 87 $

Author:

Kimmo Tuukkanen

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface net.sf.marineapi.nmea.sentence.Sentence

ADDRESS_FIELD, BEGIN_CHAR, CHECKSUM_DELIMITER, FIELD_DELIMITER, MAX_LENGTH, TERMINATOR

Fields inherited from interface net.sf.marineapi.nmea.sentence.Sentence

ADDRESS_FIELD, BEGIN_CHAR, CHECKSUM_DELIMITER, FIELD_DELIMITER, MAX_LENGTH, TERMINATOR

Method Summary

int	getLocalZoneHours() Get offset to local time zone in hours, from +/- 0 to +/- 13 hours.
int	getLocalZoneMinutes() Get offset to local time zone in minutes, from 0 to +/- 59.
void	setLocalZoneHours(int hours) Set offset to local time zone in hours.
void	setLocalZoneMinutes(int minutes) Set offset to local time zone in minutes.
Date	toDate() Get date and time as Date.

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.marineapi.nmea.sentence.TimeSentence

getTime, setTime

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.marineapi.nmea.sentence.Sentence

getFieldCount, getSentenceId, getTalkerId, isProprietary, isValid, setTalkerId, toSentence, toString

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.marineapi.nmea.sentence.DateSentence

getDate, setDate

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.marineapi.nmea.sentence.Sentence

getFieldCount, getSentenceId, getTalkerId, isProprietary, isValid, setTalkerId, toSentence, toString

Method Detail

getLocalZoneHours

int getLocalZoneHours()

Get offset to local time zone in hours, from +/- 0 to +/- 13 hours.

Returns:

Time zone offset

Throws:

DataNotAvailableException - If the data is not available.

ParseException - If the field contains unexpected or illegal value.

getLocalZoneMinutes

int getLocalZoneMinutes()

Get offset to local time zone in minutes, from 0 to +/- 59.

Returns:

Time zone offset

Throws:

DataNotAvailableException - If the data is not available.

ParseException - If the field contains unexpected or illegal value.

setLocalZoneHours

void setLocalZoneHours(int hours)

Set offset to local time zone in hours.

Parameters:

hours - Offset, from 0 to +/- 13 hours.

setLocalZoneMinutes

void setLocalZoneMinutes(int minutes)

Set offset to local time zone in minutes.

Parameters:

minutes - Offset, from 0 to +/- 59 minutes.

toDate

Date toDate()

Get date and time as Date.

Returns:

Date

Throws:

DataNotAvailableException - If any of the date/time values is not available.

ParseException - If the any of the date/time fields contains invalid value.