At 7:21 AM +0000 2005-10-22, Bjorn Gabrielsson wrote:
You may have been unlucky to get a GPS unit that is not
well-suited to your desired task.
IF the offset is fairly constant it may very well be a suitable
receiver - for some low accuracy timing applications (like ntp).
On most consumer-grade GPS devices, the serial port
communications get the lowest priority of anything on the device, and
the manufacturers tend to cut as many corners as they possibly can.
The result is that most of them don't support NMEA at all, and those
few that do have such horribly bad jitter that they are virtually
worthless as timekeeping devices.
There are a very few consumer-grade GPS devices (such as the
Garmin GPS 18LVC) which do not fall into this situation, but they are
very few and very far between.
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