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AIS Coordinated Universal Time and Date Inquiry (Message 10)

This message should be used when a station is requesting UTC and date from another station.

Parameter Number of bits Description
Message ID 6 An identifier for Message 10; always 10
Repeat indicator 2 Used by the repeater to indicate how many times a message has been repeated. 0 = default; 3 = do not repeat any more
Source ID 30 MMSI number of station which inquires UTC
Spare 2 Not used. Should be set to zero. Reserved for future use.
Destination ID 30 MMSI number of station which is inquired
Spare 2 Not used. Should be set to zero. Reserved for future use.
Number of bits 72  

(Source: Rec. ITU-R M.1371-5)