[ntp:questions] NTP NMEA driver

Rob nomail at example.com
Tue Feb 12 09:54:35 UTC 2013


unruh <unruh at invalid.ca> wrote:
>> You are obviously wrong here.  The messages that provide position data
>> do not include the current time, they include the "time of fix".
>
> None, not even ZDA put out current time. They all put out time in the
> past. It takes a long time for any of the messages to be composed in the
> receiver, to be queued, to be sent at 300-9000 bits per second, and to
> be intrpreted. 

You are describing implementation details in some particular receiver.
Why not read the actual specs of the protocol instead?

Can't you understand the difference between outputting a current
time and outputting a time-of-fix?



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