Library time parsing is now backward-compatible with 2.95.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gps/gps.py b/gps/gps.py
index 372293c9..d305a346 100755
--- a/gps/gps.py
+++ b/gps/gps.py
@@ -262,7 +262,11 @@ class gps(gpsdata, gpsjson):
             self.valid = ONLINE_SET
             self.utc = default("time", None, TIME_SET)
             if self.utc is not None:
-                self.fix.time = isotime(self.utc.encode("ascii"))
+                # Time can be either Unix time as a float or an ISO8601 string
+                if type(self.fix.time) == type(0.0):
+                    self.fix.time = self.utc
+                else:
+                    self.fix.time = isotime(self.utc.encode("ascii"))
             self.fix.ept =       default("ept",   NaN, TIMERR_SET)
             self.fix.latitude =  default("lat",   NaN, LATLON_SET)
             self.fix.longitude = default("lon",   NaN)