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13181834Sroberto		<h3>European Automated Computer Time Services</h3>
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15181834Sroberto		<p>Several European countries use the following message data format:</p>
16181834Sroberto		<p><font size="-1" face="Courier New">Data format<br>
17181834Sroberto				0000000000111111111122222222223333333333444444444455555555556666666666777777777 7<br>
18181834Sroberto				0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678 9<br>
19181834Sroberto				1995-01-23 20:58:51 MEZ 10402303260219950123195849740+40000500 *<br>
20181834Sroberto				A B C D EF G H IJ K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XY Z&lt;CR&gt;&lt;LF&gt;<br>
21181834Sroberto				A year<br>
22181834Sroberto				B month<br>
23181834Sroberto				C day<br>
24181834Sroberto				D hour<br>
25181834Sroberto				E : normally<br>
26181834Sroberto				A for DST to ST switch first hour<br>
27181834Sroberto				B for DST to ST switch second hour if not marked in H<br>
28181834Sroberto				F minute<br>
29181834Sroberto				G second<br>
30181834Sroberto				H timezone<br>
31181834Sroberto				I day of week<br>
32181834Sroberto				J week of year<br>
33181834Sroberto				K day of year<br>
34181834Sroberto				L month for next ST/DST changes<br>
35181834Sroberto				M day<br>
36181834Sroberto				N hour<br>
37181834Sroberto				O UTC year<br>
38181834Sroberto				P UTC month<br>
39181834Sroberto				Q UTC day<br>
40181834Sroberto				R UTC hour<br>
41181834Sroberto				S UTC minute<br>
42181834Sroberto				T modified julian day (MJD)<br>
43181834Sroberto				U DUT1<br>
44181834Sroberto				V direction and month if leap second<br>
45181834Sroberto				W signal delay (assumed/measured)<br>
46181834Sroberto				X sequence number for additional text line in Y<br>
47181834Sroberto				Y additional text<br>
48181834Sroberto				Z on time marker (* - assumed delay / # measured delay)<br>
49181834Sroberto				&lt;CR&gt;!&lt;LF&gt; ! is second change !<br>
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51181834Sroberto		<p>This format is an ITU-R Recommendation (ITU-R TF583.4) and is now available from the primary timing centres of the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom. Some examples are:</p>
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53181834Sroberto			<li>In Germany by Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)'s timecode service. Phone number: +49 5 31 51 20 38.
54181834Sroberto				<p>For more detail, see <a href="http://www.ptb.de/english/org/4/43/433/disse.html">http://www.ptb.de/english/org/4/43/433/disse.htm</a></p>
55181834Sroberto			<li>In the UK by National Physical Laboratory (NPL)'s TRUETIME service. Phone number: 0891 516 333
56181834Sroberto				<p>For more detail, see <a href="http://www.npl.co.uk/npl/ctm/truetime.html">http://www.npl.co.uk/npl/ctm/truetime.html</a></p>
57181834Sroberto			<li>In Italy by Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale &quot;Galileo Ferrais&quot; (IEN)'s CTD service. Phone number: 166 11 46 15
58181834Sroberto				<p>For more detail, see <a href="http://www.ien.it/tf/time/Pagina42.html">http://www.ien.it/tf/time/Pagina42.html</a></p>
59181834Sroberto			<li>In Switzerland by Swiss Federal Office of Metrology's timecode service. Phone number: 031 323 32 25
60181834Sroberto				<p>For more detail, see <a href="http://www.metas.ch/en/labors/official-time/modem/index.html">http://www.ofmet.admin.ch/de/labors/4/Zeitvert.html </a></p>
61181834Sroberto			<li>In Sweden by SP Swedish National Testing and Research Institute 's timecode service. Phone number: +46 33 415783.
62181834Sroberto				<p>For more detail, see <a href="http://www.sp.se/metrology/timefreq/eng/tandf.htm">http://www.sp.se/metrology/timefreq/eng/tandf.htm</a></p>
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