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Remove "week day" from the TIME response
The week day item in the TIME response is useless. Drivewire 4 doesn't
return it and since that is the most common Drivewire implementation, it
makes sense to conform to that definition.
| author | William Astle <lost@l-w.ca> |
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| date | Sat, 16 Jul 2016 18:56:01 -0600 |
| parents | 2e382e1a173e |
| children | 36c4cda4b6c4 |
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--- a/docs/protocol.txt Sat Jun 11 12:26:39 2016 -0600 +++ b/docs/protocol.txt Sat Jul 16 18:56:01 2016 -0600 @@ -119,14 +119,19 @@ 3 hour (0-23) 4 minute (0-59) 5 second (0-60) - 6 day of week (0-6, 0 = Sunday) This packet roughly corresponds to the return structure for the localtime() function in C. Note that this request is part of the original Drivewire 3 specification. However, Drivewire 3 specifies only 0-59 for the seconds value. LWWire allows the value 60 for the seconds value for the rare case where a leap second is in effect. This is unlikely to ever be a problem in -real deployments since leap seconds can occur at most four times per year. +real deployments since leap seconds can occur at most twelve times per year. + +The original Drivewire 3 ipmlementation returned a seventh octet which +encoded the day of the week with Sunday as 0. Since the most common +Drivewire implementation is the Drivewire 4 server which only sends the six +octets and the day of the week value is basically useless, this +specification conforms to the Drivewire 4 implementation. 46 PRINTFLUSH