net.sf.marineapi.nmea.sentence
Interface DateSentence

All Superinterfaces:

Sentence

All Known Subinterfaces:

RMCSentence, ZDASentence

public interface DateSentence
extends Sentence

Sentences that contains date information. Notice that some sentences may contain only time without the date.

Author:

Kimmo Tuukkanen

See Also:

TimeSentence

Field Summary

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

ALTERNATIVE_BEGIN_CHAR, BEGIN_CHAR, CHECKSUM_DELIMITER, FIELD_DELIMITER, MAX_LENGTH, TERMINATOR

Method Summary

Date	getDate() Parses the date information from sentence fields and returns a Date.
void	setDate(Date date) Set date.

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

getBeginChar, getFieldCount, getSentenceId, getTalkerId, isProprietary, isValid, reset, setBeginChar, setTalkerId, toSentence, toSentence, toString

Method Detail

getDate

Date getDate()

Parses the date information from sentence fields and returns a Date.

Returns:

Date object

Throws:

DataNotAvailableException - If the data is not available.

ParseException - If the field contains unexpected or illegal value.

setDate

void setDate(Date date)

Set date. Depending on the sentence type, the values may be inserted to multiple fields or combined into one. Four-digit year value may also be reduced into two-digit format.

Parameters:

date - Date