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Re: [gpsd-dev] Off by a second
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Gary E. Miller |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] Off by a second |
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Wed, 1 Jul 2015 12:35:04 -0700 |
Yo Hal!
On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 01:49:22 -0700
Hal Murray <address@hidden> wrote:
> Are you interested in chasing this?
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> I've got a setup with GPS+PPS over USB. It's a Sparkfun "Venus GPS"
> connected via a Sparkfun "FT232R breakout" and 5 wires. The Venus
> has a SkyTrak 638 chip.
Being off by exactly 1 second, my guess is the GPS forgot to take the
leap second. Not much gpsd can do when a GPS fails to know the correct
time.
If your GPS has not figured out the correct leap second by now you
could add 1 second to your ntp fudge to mitigate the GPS failure.
RGDS
GARY
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