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Re: [gpsd-dev] Parallel build broken?


From: Eric S. Raymond
Subject: Re: [gpsd-dev] Parallel build broken?
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 22:24:47 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Paul Fertser <address@hidden>:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:56:18PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > A more conservative but much simpler strategy would be simply to bump
> > up ept in the JSON reports by N seconds for 12.5 minutes (one almanac
> > transmission period) after device powerup, where N is the maximum
> > number of possible leap-seconds issued between the build date of the
> > GPSD instance and now.
> 
> And so you'll get wrong time for the first 12.5 minutes almost always,

No I won't.  ept is the *time error* estimate, not the time.  With my
proposal we don't adjust the time at all, just broaden the error band.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>



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