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Python - Convertion of GPS time to UTC

I have been researching everywhere for a solution to this problem. Any help would be much appreciated.

I would like to take the time from the GPS data and need to convert that to a human readable format, may be like YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.

Following is the GPS dataformat:

$GPRMC,123519,A,4807.038,N,01131.000,E,022.4,084.4,230394,003.1,W*6A

Here, 123519 is fix taken at 12:35:19 UTC and 230394 is the date - 23rd of March 1994

Thanks.

Solution

  • You can use something like 

    for line in data.split('\n') :
    if line.startswith( '$GPRMC' ) :
        lat, _, lon = line.strip().split(',')[2:5]

    to manually bring the string to a suitable format. Then pass this to datetime.strptime:

    from datetime import datetime
datetime_object = datetime.strptime('Jun 1 2005  1:33PM', '%b %d %Y %I:%M%p')

    Or use a library like

    pynmea2

    micropyGPS