[time-nuts] We had 5 of our XL-AK GPS receivers suddenly gained 1 second

[Laszlo Hanyecz]

Does anyone have any interesting anecdotes about this condition maybe from previous leap seconds where this same thing happened?  I'm thinking stuff like distributed systems (web apps, enterprise systems, accounting) which record events can end up recording them in the wrong order and exposing previously unreachable code paths.. or even systems which bail out when they see a large time delta like this.  Specifically I'm asking about high level applications which indirectly rely on GPS for time of day, like a datacenter which uses an NTP appliance containing one of the affected GPS chips.  I'm curious what kind of real world failures are experienced because of this.

Thanks,
Laszlo


On Feb 6, 2015, at 12:50 AM, <cdelect at juno.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> XL-AK GPS receivers  suddenly gained 1 second!
> Anyone encounter this with XL-AK GPS receivers?
> If so is there any work around to correct this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Corby
> 
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