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The leap second bug

The leap second bug

Posted Jul 5, 2012 3:03 UTC (Thu) by dirtyepic (subscriber, #30178)
In reply to: The leap second bug by cmccabe
Parent article: The leap second bug

GPS sats are generally synchronized to somewhere ~10ns, but the receivers have to operate in UTC time and use a delta that's broadcast with the nav message which cycles every 12.5min. This is where I thought a leap second could have the chance to mess with phase tracking. It turns out that I was wrong though and there are failsafes built in to specifically prevent that from happening. Yay learning.


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