Re: [gpsd-users] Leap second has arrived but GPS not updated?

[Tomalak Geret'kal]

On 01/07/2012 20:31, Alexander Carver wrote:
> On 7/1/2012 12:19, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Tomalak Geret'kal <address@hidden>:
> > > > Now I'm even more confused.  As of about an hour ago, 
> > > > the GPS UTC
> > > > offset has gone *backward* from 16 to 15 again.  I'm 
> > > > not sure what
> > > > happened or why.  At about 0700 UTC it started showing 
> > > > an offset
> > > > of 16 seconds. Somewhere after 1300 it stepped 
> > > > backwards.  I still
> > > > have satellites in view, six are locked for a fix plus 
> > > > the one
> > > > SBAS is good.
> >
> > > Sounds to me like your receiver has a "default" of 15 in 
> > > its NV RAM,
> > > plus a bug preventing it from properly extracting the 
> > > UTC Correction
> > > parameter from almanac.
> >
> > I agree with this diagnosis.
>
> I'm forced to agree with it but I don't want to. :)  I'm 
> exhausting all other possible avenues before declaring the 
> receiver badly programmed.
>
> The sad part is that I have four more of these identical 
> units.  I suspect there are many in the field considering 
> they were used in remote telemetry devices.  I'll be 
> disappointed if they can't be fixed but I doubt GlobalSat 
> even supports them anymore.
The good news is you got them free.

Tom