> I was asking myself if this could have any impact for ntpd which > use a GPS receiver as time source.
You wouldn't have to keep updating the leapseconds file, that's all. > As GPS satellite are > geostationary, Except for the FAA's WAAS, this is not true; the GPS satellites are all in medium Earth orbit at 20,200km and have an orbital period of about twelve hours. > I guess they are affected with changes in earth > rotation. How does this affect the time used from the GPS signal? GPS timekeeping has never used leap seconds. They use their own time scale, GPS Time, which TAI-GPS=19 seconds. GPS satellites also transmit the current UTC/GPS time offset. _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
