Vehicle.Epoch Property

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Description

The current Vehicle date and time in International Atomic Time (TAI) in the Modified Julian Date format. The returned value has units of days, measured from January 5, 1941 at 12:00:00.000 TAI.

 

Changing the value of this property does not cause the Vehicle's state to be propagated - the Vehicle's state will not be changed. In order to propagate a Vehicle to a desired epoch, use the Step command.

 

Timing Precision Mode

This page describes functionality in millisecond timing precision mode. Millisecond timing precision mode is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. We recommend that you migrate your Mission Plans to nanosecond timing precision mode.

Click here to see the documentation for this object in nanosecond timing precision mode.

 

Attributes

Type:

number

Access:

read/write

Units:

day

Default Value:

"Jan 01 2020 00:00:00.000"

 

Syntax

myVariable1 = myVehicle1.Epoch;

 

myVehicle1.Epoch = myVariable1;

 

See also

Vehicle Object