Waypoint time from Garmin GPS

[Phil Wyatt-2]

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Hi Folks,

 

I am no coder so please bear with me. I am using GPSBabel via simple batch files to grab data from Garmin gps's using

 

gpsbabel -t -w -i garmin -f usb: -o gpx -F D:\gpsdata\gpsdata.gpx

 

This returns the correct data but I am wondering if I am missing something re waypoints and time?

 

A typical waypoint is like this with local time in cmt and desc fields but track points have zulu time in another field. Is there any way to get zulu time into a <time> field for waypoints?

 

Waypoints

<wpt lat="-42.842553779" lon="147.267115870">

  <ele>59.006104</ele>

  <name>003</name>

  <cmt>20-OCT-09 15:14</cmt>

  <desc>20-OCT-09 15:14</desc>

  <sym>Waypoint</sym>

</wpt>

 

 

Track Points

<trkpt lat="-42.842634246" lon="147.267185273">

  <ele>57.816528</ele>

  <time>2009-10-20T05:14:45Z</time>

</trkpt>

 

 

 

Many thanks - Phil Wyatt

 

 

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[Robert Lipe-4]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Phil Wyatt

A typical waypoint is like this with local time in cmt and desc fields but track points have zulu time in another field. Is there any way to get zulu time into a <time> field for waypoints

Certain Garmins have timestamp fields in what they transfer to us.  Most of the hand-helds don't write the data in those fields.  We don't "dumpster dive" in the freeform text comments to look for things that may be a date.   As we don't know the time zone or the locale information (a unit set for Spanish, for example, presumably writes "Mayo" for the fifth month, for example) it's just not something we do.

An external, special-purpose processor that knew those things could probably pull that off with some success, but we really can't do it in any kind of general-purpose way.

RJL

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