[aprssig] Com port SHARING vs Com Port JOINING
Scott Miller
scott at opentrac.org
Tue Jan 15 01:37:06 EST 2008
> Also, most folks don't realize that "GPS Time" is NOT
> Earth time! The GPS constellation does not follow leap seconds.
> This has happened something like 13 times, so GPS time is off by
> About that much from official "Earth Time". Merely using a GPS
Oh, SOME of us realize it.. like those of us who have to try to
implement the correction in little 8-bit micros with no time and date
libraries... <grumble>
(FWIW, the NMEA outputs I've looked at seem to be corrected for leap
seconds. Garmin binary mode is NOT, but it does at least tell you what
the difference is.)
Scott
N1VG
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