[ntp:questions] Strat 1 servers reporting leap_none?

Unruh unruh-spam at physics.ubc.ca
Wed Dec 31 23:27:41 UTC 2008


hal-usenet at ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net (Hal Murray) writes:


>>GPS does not advertise leap seconds (they just insert them when
>>appropriate) so if their only source is gps, then they have "no way of
>>knowing".

>That's not correct.  Some receivers may not pass the info to the user,
>but the satellites transmit it.

>[I recently fixed a bug where the refclk driver for the HP Z3801A
>was announcing a leap second before the appropraite month.]

Which NMEA sentence announces the leap second?
(I guess I should have qualified my comment with "no NMEA GPS receiver
advertises leap seconds)






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