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). -- One art / There is John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No less / No more http://www.reutershealth.com All things / To do http://www.ccil.org/~cowan With sparks / Galore -- Douglas Hofstadter
