[time-nuts] GPS/UTC time

Steve Platt steve.platt at ntlworld.com
Sat Jul 4 04:26:52 EDT 2015


> surely the GPS time isn’t run incorrectly forever.

Yes it is :-)

In simple terms, the integer part of the drift is removed by inserting extra seconds every so often.

A count of those seconds is part of the GPS data stream and s/w displays which timeframe you select.

Steve
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