[LEAPSECS] it's WP7A week in Geneva

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4AC88906.30505 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:

>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:



>> "most of the times" is simply not good enough.

>> 

>

>Then you haven't understood the limits. GPS itself only works "most of 

>the times". 


The difference is, when GPS does not work, the receiver goes out of
the way to be able to detect and report this.

Using a GPS-UTC delta from memory, before we have an updated value
from the sats is just plain old bogusly wrong.

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