Galileo System Time (GST) converter

The GST start epoch is 0h UTC on Sunday, 22 August 1999 (midnight between 21 and 22 August).

Datetime to GST Epoch

Date and time

WN

ToW

GST Epoch

GST Epoch to Datetime

GST Epoch

WN

ToW

Date and time


The GST is given as 32-bit binary number composed of two parameters as follows:

WN - 12bits

The Week Number is an integer counter that gives the sequential week number from the origin of the Galileo time.

This parameter is coded on 12 bits, which covers 4096 weeks (about 78 years).

Then the counter is reset to zero to cover additional period modulo 4096.

TOW - 20bits

The Time of Week is defined as the number of seconds that have occurred since the transition from the previous week.

The TOW covers an entire week from 0 to 604799 seconds and is reset to zero at the end of each week.

Source: Galileo Open Service Signal In Space Interface Control Document (OS SIS ICD), GSA, Issue 1.1, September 2010