Each subframe (sent every six seconds) has the *GPS Time*. The GPS/UTC
offset is only sent in subframe 4 of page 18 of the almanac data, i.e. once
every 12.5 minutes.

Also, a comment on the ZDA message mentioned previously. I had tried that
as part of my project R&D and it also returns "best guess UTC", just like
RMC. i.e. if the receiver hasn't received the GPS/UTC offset, it doesn't
actually report UTC.


On 25 April 2012 19:22, StarTraX <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been reading up on the GPS signal structure, and it's true that it
> takes 12 1/2 minutes for the full sequence, but... and this is a big but...
> the GPS time and GPS/UTC offset are sent with every sub frame, and they
> come by every six seconds.
> So you can forget about waiting 12 1/2 minutes. before being certain of
> the time! It's synchronized every 6 seconds. Its all well explained
> in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_signals
>

-- 
Andrew

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