Meinberg GEN170TGP - Manual (Page 12)

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This menu can be used to enter the date of a leap second insertion. In order to adjust
the world wide time (UTC) to the earth rotation, the International Earth Rotation Service
(IERS) announces when a leap second must be inserted into the UTC time scale. The
IERS prefers to insert a leap second after 23:59:59 UTC on December, 31 or on June,
30, if necessary.
SETUP SERIAL PORT PARM
Using this topic the user can enter transmission speed and framing of the serial ports.
Default parameters are:
COM0: 19200 baud, 8N1
COM1: 9600 baud, 8N1
SETUP SER. STRING TYPE
This menu lets the user select the time string formats sent via the serial ports. As of this
writing the GEN170 supports sending the Meinberg standard string only on both ports.