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#### Procedure

       void scdecd_c ( SpiceInt       sc,
                       SpiceDouble    sclkdp,
                       SpiceInt       lenout,
                       SpiceChar    * sclkch  )

#### Abstract

       Convert double precision encoding of spacecraft clock time into
       a character representation.

#### Required_Reading

       SCLK

#### Keywords

       CONVERSION
       TIME

#### Brief_I/O

       Variable  I/O  Description
       --------  ---  --------------------------------------------------
       sc         I   NAIF spacecraft identification code.
       sclkdp     I   Encoded representation of a spacecraft clock count.
       lenout     I   Maximum allowed length of output SCLK string.
       sclkch     O   Character representation of a clock count.
       MXPART     P   Maximum number of spacecraft clock partitions.

#### Detailed_Input

       sc         is the NAIF integer code of the spacecraft whose
                  clock's time is being decoded.

       sclkdp     is the double precision encoding of a clock time in
                  units of ticks since the spacecraft clock start time.
                  This value does reflect partition information.

                  An analogy may be drawn between a spacecraft clock
                  and a standard wall clock. The number of ticks
                  corresponding to the wall clock string

                                  hh:mm:ss

                  would be the number of seconds represented by that
                  time.

                  For example:

                        Clock string      Number of ticks
                        ------------      ---------------
                          00:00:10              10
                          00:01:00              60
                          00:10:00             600
                          01:00:00            3600

                  If sclkdp contains a fractional part the result
                  is the same as if sclkdp had been rounded to the
                  nearest whole number.

       lenout     is the maximum number of characters that can be
                  accommodated in the output string.  This count
                  includes room for the terminating null character.
                  For example, if the maximum allowed length of the
                  output string, including the terminating null, is 25
                  characters, then lenout should be set to 25.

#### Detailed_Output

       sclkch     is the character representation of the clock count.
                  The exact form that sclkch takes depends on the
                  spacecraft.

                  Nevertheless, sclkch will have the following general
                  format:

                               "pp/sclk_string"

                  "pp" is an integer greater than or equal to one and
                  represents a "partition number".

                  Each mission is divided into some number of partitions.
                  A new partition starts when the spacecraft clock
                  resets, either to zero, or to some other
                  value. Thus, the first partition for any mission
                  starts with launch, and ends with the first clock
                  reset. The second partition starts immediately when
                  the first stopped, and so on.

                  In order to be completely unambiguous about a
                  particular time, you need to specify a partition number
                  along with the standard clock string.

                  Information about when partitions occur for different
                  missions is contained in a spacecraft clock kernel
                  file which needs to be loaded into the kernel pool
                  before calling scdecd_c.

                  The routine scpart_c may be used to read the partition
                  start and stop times, in encoded units of ticks, from
                  the kernel file.

                  Since the end time of one partition is coincident with
                  the begin time of the next, two different time strings
                  with different partition numbers can encode into the
                  same value.

                  For example, if partition 1 ends at time t1, and
                  partition 2 starts at time t2, then

                     "1/t1" and "2/t2"

                  will be encoded into the same value, say X. scdecd_c
                  always decodes such values into the latter of the
                  two partitions. In this example,

                     scdecd_c ( x, sc, MAXLEN, clkstr )

                  will result in

                     clkstr = "2/t2".

                  "sclk_string" is a spacecraft specific clock string,
                  typically consisting of a number of components
                  separated by delimiters.

                  Using Galileo as an example, the full format is

                     wwwwwwww:xx:y:z

                  where z is a mod-8 counter (values 0-7) which
                  increments approximately once every 8 1/3 ms., y is a
                  mod-10 counter (values 0-9) which increments once
                  every time z turns over, i.e., approximately once every
                  66 2/3 ms., xx is a mod-91 (values 0-90) counter
                  which increments once every time y turns over, i.e.,
                  once every 2/3 seconds. wwwwwwww is the Real-Time Image
                  Count (RIM), which increments once every time xx turns
                  over, i.e., once every 60 2/3 seconds. The roll-over
                  expression for the RIM is 16777215, which corresponds
                  to approximately 32 years.

                  wwwwwwww, xx, y, and z are referred to interchangeably
                  as the fields or components of the spacecraft clock.
                  SCLK components may be separated by any of these five
                  characters: " "  ":"  ","  "-"  "."
                  The delimiter used is determined by a kernel pool
                  variable and can be adjusted by the user.

                  Some spacecraft clock components have offset, or
                  starting, values different from zero.  For example,
                  with an offset value of 1, a mod 20 counter would
                  cycle from 1 to 20 instead of from 0 to 19.

                  See the SCLK required reading for a detailed
                  description of the Voyager and Mars Observer clock
                  formats.

#### Parameters

       MXPART     is the maximum number of spacecraft clock partitions
                  expected in the kernel file for any one spacecraft.
                  MXPART is currently set to 9999.

#### Exceptions

       1) If kernel variables required by this routine are unavailable,
          the error will be diagnosed by routines called by this routine.
          sclkch will be returned as a blank string in this case.

       2) If the number of partitions in the kernel file for spacecraft
          SC exceeds the parameter MXPART, the error
          SPICE(TOOMANYPARTS) is signaled.  sclkch will be returned
          as a blank string in this case.

       3) If the encoded value does not fall in the boundaries of the
          mission, the error SPICE(VALUEOUTOFRANGE) is signaled.
          sclkch will be returned as a blank string in this case.

       4) If the output string pointer is null, the error SPICE(NULLPOINTER)
          is signaled.

       5) If the output string has length less than two characters, it
          is too short to contain one character of output data plus a null
          terminator, so it cannot be passed to the underlying Fortran
          routine.  In this event, the error SPICE(STRINGTOOSHORT) is
          signaled.

       6) If the length of sclkch (indicated by lenout) is at least two
          characters but not large enough to contain the output clock
          string, the error SPICE(SCLKTRUNCATED) is signaled either by the
          underlying Fortran routine or by a routine called by that routine.
          On output sclkch will contain a portion of the truncated clock
          string.

#### Files

       A kernel file containing spacecraft clock partition information
       for the desired spacecraft must be loaded, using the routine
       furnsh_c, before calling this routine.

#### Particulars

       In general, it is difficult to compare spacecraft clock counts
       numerically since there are too many clock components for a
       single comparison.  The routine scencd_c provides a method of
       assigning a single double precision number to a spacecraft's
       clock count, given one of its character representations.

       This routine performs the inverse operation to scencd_c, converting
       an encoded double precision number to character format.

       To convert the number of ticks since the start of the mission to
       a clock format character string, scdecd_c:

          1) Determines the spacecraft clock partition that TICKS falls
             in.

          2) Subtracts off the number of ticks occurring in previous
             partitions, to get the number of ticks since the beginning
             of the current partition.

          3) Converts the resulting ticks to clock format and forms the
             string

                "partition_number/clock_string"

#### Examples

       Double precision encodings of spacecraft clock counts are used to
       tag pointing data in the C-kernel.

       In the following example, pointing for a sequence of images from
       the Voyager 2 narrow angle camera is requested from the C-kernel
       using an array of character spacecraft clock counts as input.
       The clock counts attached to the output are then decoded to
       character and compared with the input strings.

          #include <stdio.h>
          #include "SpiceUsr.h"

          void main()
          {
             /.
             The instrument we want pointing for is the Voyager 2
             narrow angle camera.  The reference frame we want is
             J2000. The spacecraft is Voyager 2.
             ./

             #define  SC         -32
             #define  INST       -32001
             #define  REF        "J2000"
             #define  CK         "/kernels/voyager2/ck/vg2_jup_qmw_na.bc"
             #define  SCLK       "/kernels/voyager2/sclk/vg200004.tsc"
             #define  NPICS      4
             #define  CLKTOL     "0:01:001"
             #define  MAXLEN     30

             SpiceBoolean       found;

             SpiceChar          sclkin [4][25] = { {"2 / 20538:39:768"},
                                                   {"2 / 20543:21:768"},
                                                   {"2 / 20550:37"    },
                                                   {"2 / 20561:59"    } };
             SpiceChar          sclkout[25];

             SpiceDouble        tol;
             SpiceDouble        timein;
             SpiceDouble        timeout;
             SpiceDouble        cmat   [3][3];

             SpiceInt           handle;
             SpiceInt           i;

             /.
             Load the appropriate files. We need

                1) CK file containing pointing data.
                2) Spacecraft clock kernel file, for scencd_c and SCDECD.
             ./

             cklpf_c  ( CK,  &handle );
             furnsh_c ( SCLK         );

             /.
             Convert the tolerance string to ticks.
             ./
             sctiks_c ( SC, CLKTOL, &tol );

             for ( i = 0;  i < NPICS;  i++ )
             {
                scencd_c ( SC,   sclkin[i], &timein );

                ckgp_c   ( INST,  timein,    tol,    REF,
                           cmat,  &timeout,  &found       );

                scdecd_c ( SC, timeout, MAXLEN, sclkout );

                if ( found )
                {
                   printf ( "\n"
                            "Input  s/c clock count: %s\n"
                            "Output s/c clock count: %s\n"
                            "Output C-Matrix:          \n"
                            "%25.16f   %25.16f   %25.16f\n"
                            "%25.16f   %25.16f   %25.16f\n"
                            "%25.16f   %25.16f   %25.16f\n"
                            "\n",
                            sclkin[i],
                            sclkout,
                            cmat[0][0],  cmat[0][1],  cmat[0][2],
                            cmat[1][0],  cmat[1][1],  cmat[1][2],
                            cmat[2][0],  cmat[2][1],  cmat[2][2] );
                }
                else
                {
                   printf ( "\n"
                            "Input  s/c clock count: %s\n"
                            "No pointing found.\n",
                            sclkin[i]                     );
                }
             }

          }

       The output from such a program might look like:

              Input  s/c clock count:  2 / 20538:39:768
              Output s/c clock count:  2/20538:39:768
              Output C-Matrix:  "first C-matrix"

              Input  s/c clock count:  2 / 20543:21:768
              Output s/c clock count:  2/20543:22:768
              Output C-Matrix:  "second C-matrix"

              Input  s/c clock count:  2 / 20550:37
              Output s/c clock count:  2/20550:36:768
              Output C-Matrix:  "third C-matrix"

              Input  s/c clock count:  2 / 20561:59
              Output s/c clock count:  2/20561:58:768
              Output C-Matrix:  "fourth C-matrix"

#### Restrictions

       1) Assumes that an SCLK kernel file appropriate for the clock
          designated by SC is loaded in the kernel pool at the time
          this routine is called.

#### Literature_References

       None.

#### Author_and_Institution

       N.J. Bachman (JPL)
       J.M. Lynch   (JPL)
       R.E. Thurman (JPL)

#### Version

       -CSPICE Version 1.2.0, 11-FEB-2008   (NJB)

          Definition of constant macro MXPART was deleted.
          Documentation was updated to reflect current
          MXPART value of 9999.

       -CSPICE Version 1.1.2, 14-AUG-2006   (EDW)

          Replace mention of ldpool_c with furnsh_c.

       -CSPICE Version 1.1.1, 26-MAR-2003 (NJB)

           Fixed description of exception (6):  replaced "lenout-1"
           with "lenout."  Corrected spelling of "signaled."

       -CSPICE Version 1.1.0, 09-FEB-1998 (NJB)

          Re-implemented routine without dynamically allocated, temporary
          strings.  Added output string length and pointer checks.

       -CSPICE Version 1.0.0, 25-OCT-1997 (NJB)

#### Index_Entries

       decode spacecraft_clock

#### Link to routine scdecd_c source file scdecd_c.c

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