The low-level MT rotator controller publishes telemetry and configuration messages with a header that include 4 fields describing time: mjd, frac_mjd, tv_sec and tv_nsec. The latter two appear to be correct, but mjd and mjd_frac (which should be the integer and fractional parts of UTC in MJD days) are actually just a "restatement" of tv_sec and tv_nsec (mjd = tv_sec and frac_mjd = tv_nsec/1e9).

This issue is likely present in the low-level MT Hexapod controller, as well.

Please do something about this. Three solutions that come to mind:

• Delete the mjd and frac_mjd fields. This requires coordinated (but trivial) updates to ts_mtrotator (and ts_mthexapod), which requires some care. I am certainly happy to update the ts_mt... packages. It may also require updating the EUIs.
• Fix the values. This is fairly easy to do and gives good backward compatibility (at least for ts_mtrotator and ts_mthexapod). I don't know what it does to EUI displays. We have no need for the data, but it avoids the need for a coordinate update to ts_mt... packages.
• Leave the values alone but rename them to something more sensible. Given the needless duplication between mdj and tv_sec, this is by far my least favorite option.