[LEAPSECS] it's WP7A week in Geneva

Clive D.W. Feather clive at davros.org
Sun Oct 4 10:11:16 EDT 2009


Poul-Henning Kamp said:

> Using a GPS-UTC delta from memory, before we have an updated value

> from the sats is just plain old bogusly wrong.


Disagree.

I've got a GPS receiver here. It reports UTC so, I presume, uses a stored
delta until it picks up a new one. For the uses I have for it, an error of
1 or even 5 seconds (but not 30) is far more useful than "no data".

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