Re: [gpsd-users] Strange 14s offset with GPS 18x LVC

[Eric S. Raymond]

Miroslav Lichvar <address@hidden>:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 01:51:00PM -0700, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> > Your gpsd likely has a bad value for leap seconds.  It happens. It will
> > eventually get the right value.
> 
> Could gpsd cache the good value or do some sanity checking? Is that a
> firmware problem? A clock that can randomly jump by 14 seconds is not
> a very good clock :).

Knowing what a "good" value is is very, very hard. Effectively impossible.  See 

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2869
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2882

for discussion.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>