Marker Tab (Display Preferences)

The Marker tab sets the timestamp preferences for showing time as part of the marker for a trace.

Timestamp: enables or disables the user preference to show time as part of the marker for a trace.

Time Standard: determines the time standard to use for the timestamp. Supported time standards are UTC (default), GPS Global Positioning System:L A worldwide radio-navigation system that was developed by the US. Department of Defense. In addition to military purposes it is widely used in marine and terrestrial navigation (for example car navigation systems)., Local, and Raw GPS Time Fields.

Format: When using UTC, GPS or Local, the user can choose a format specifier to customize the time display format.

Each format specifier must be in its own {} with 0: preceding the specifier. Most C++ chrono format specifiers are supported.

Examples:

Format Specifier	Example Result
<Blank>	2023-11-30 00:10:09.259981441Z
{0:%D}	11/30/23
{0:%D}{0:%T}	11/30/2300:10:09.259981441

The time part of the marker will only be shown for traces that have seconds for the X-axis.

When there isn’t any timestamp in the recording, VSA will default to using the start of the GPS Time epoch which is 1980-01-06T0:00:00. The actual time you see will be adjusted for your timezone relative to UTC (Greenwich) time.