GPS was incepted in 1982, at which point it was equal to UTC ; since then, 15 leap seconds were introduced to UTC, thus the 15-second offset and by next July 1st, it will be 16 seconds. The most common use of GPS time (hybrid?) is the Android system time, even though Samsung Android phones use UTC discipline, possibly not thinking like Google that GPS time is so prevalent....
Christopher On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 19:25, Brian, WA1ZMS <[email protected]> wrote: > GPS has its own time scale. Part of the GPS data stream contains the > number > of seconds that GPS and UTC differ by. > > > -Brian, WA1ZMS > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Dan Rae > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 7:21 PM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 15 Seconds error...?? > > GPS time v. UTC ? > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
