ObservationRecordStartTime Property

public DateTime StartTime { get; set; }

Public Property StartTime As DateTime
	Get
	Set

public:
property DateTime StartTime {
	DateTime get ();
	void set (DateTime value);
}

member StartTime : DateTime with get, set

function get_StartTime();
function set_StartTime(value);

The ObservationRecord contains two timestamp fields: StartTime and TimeTriggered. The StartTime is a required part of any Observation, whereas the TimeTriggered is optional. The StartTime does not have to be the same as the trigger time and can therefore be chosen more or less arbitrarily. For instance, you can choose to record the StartTime as the timestamp of the first data point in the observation or the top of an interval in which the data was captured. The trigger time field is more well defined, essentially always representing the point in time at which the data source decided to capture some data in the PQDIF file.