The invention relates to a method and device for decoding 
time information of a BPL (
broadband over power line) 
receiver. The method is technically characterized by comprising the following steps of: performing 12bit A / D (analog / digital) sampling conversion on a received BPL long wave time service 
signal, and performing digital filtering and other preprocessing; carrying out carrier removal by using a 
Costas loop to acquire 
carrier phase modulation information of the BPL long wave time service 
signal; performing relevant 
frequency mixing on the BPL long wave time service 
signal which is subjected to the sampling and filtering 
processing; and filtering out a 
high frequency component by using a FIR (
far infrared) 
low pass filter, sending data to a DSP (
digital signal processor) along an I / Q 
branch, wherein the DSP performs phase 
verification, loop filtering and other 
processing mainly according to the data of the I / Q 
branch so as to control and process a carrier 
tracking loop. When the method for decoding the 
time information, provided by the invention is used for encoding the BPL long wave time service signal, the decoding error rate at a signal-to-
noise ratio (SNR) of more than or equal to 5dB is more than 0.05 percent, and the timing uncertainty of a 1PPS timing signal generated by the 
standard time information which is acquired by decoding is less than or equal to 200ns.