M. Warner Losh scripsit:
> One could say that GPS handles them perfectly, in that they do not
> exist at all in the GPS time scale. However, GPS' propigation of the
> GPS UTC offset leaves much to be desired. That data is sent in the
> alminac, which takes at least 20 minutes to down when a reciever is
> started "cold"[*].
In addition, since GPS time is TAI - 19s, the GPS-UTC difference will
eventually overflow any fixed-sized transmission packet (if transmitted
as a delta or as a table, it makes no difference in the end).
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Received on Mon Sep 26 2005 - 07:27:56 PDT