Symmetricom XLi IEEE 1588 User Manual

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Then, to request the current time, enter SHIFT-T on your keyboard. ("T" does not appear). XLi responds:

<SOH>128:20:30:04.357*<CR><LF>

To exit F9 press Ctrl-C on your keyboard. 

Use function F11 to change the format of the F8 and F9 time output strings. The factory setting for F11 
format is null, which reinstates the factory default time output formats for F8 and F9:

<SOH>DDD:HH:MM:SSQ<CR><LF>

(for F8)

<SOH>DDD:HH:MM:SS.mmmQ<CR><LF>

(for F9)

To display the default format for F11, enter:

F11 responds:

F11 DDD:HH:MM:SS.mmmQ

where:

<SOH>

=  ASCII Start-of-Heading character

<CR>

=  ASCII Carriage Return character 

<LF>

=  ASCII Line Feed character 

DDD

= day-of-year.

HH

= hours.

MM

= minutes.

SS

= seconds.

mmm

= milliseconds.

:

= colon 

separator.

Q

=  time quality character (see the following table)