In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >I think that it depends on the model of oncore receiver. The M12+ >appears to cache the almanac wrt leap seconds for a period of time >after power is removed from them (I'm sure it does this if the power >is off for minutes, I'm sure it doesn't if it is off all weekend, but >don't know where the cutoff point is).
The real test is to power off, disconnect antenna and power on. If it reports leap second status then, it must clearly trust the cached almanac 100%. My conclusion was that it didn't until it had seen a timestamp from a satellite which would confirm that the almanac was current. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
