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Using GPS as your time source is a fabulously good way to trash your entire database during a leap second. See this paper for a discussion on how essentially e
by timelol 9y ago
Using GPS as your time source is a fabulously good way to trash your entire database during a leap second. See this paper for a discussion on how essentially everybody but Google gets this wrong: http://crin.eng.uts.edu.au/~darryl/Publications/LeapSecond_camera.pdf http://crin.eng.uts.edu.au/~darryl/Publications/LeapSecond_c...
- mastax 9y agoGPS time does not have leap seconds: http://www.oc.nps.edu/oc2902w/gps/timsys.html http://www.oc.nps.edu/oc2902w/gps/timsys.html > GPS Time is a uniformly counting time scale ... The word "uniformly" is used above to indicate that there are no "leap seconds" in this time system. > The GPS message contains information that allows a receiver to convert GPS Time into Universal Time In fact the article you linked corroborates this, because they used GPS time to show how inaccurate NTP servers are.