On 2012-02-19, David J Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > "unruh" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> On 2012-02-19, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Ron Frazier (NTP) <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> *GPS_NMEA(5) .GPS1. 0 l 4 8 37 0.000 563.733 >>> >>> Don't try to use NMEA for timesyncing! It will only drive you crazy. >> >> No. It is fine. > > NMEA alone may be little better than Internet servers, it may be worse. > >>> Some people are lucky and seem to be able to get a usable result, but >>> they really are working outside the specs and can get bitten at any >>> firmware change (as was recently seen with some Garmin firmware). >> >> Yes, you may have to recalibrate the offset after a firmware change. So? > > The Garmin issue was more than a simple "recalibration required", but the > released a fix. "So" might be: "so use PPS as well as NMEA, both to > improve performance dramatically and reduce or remove the need for > recalibration.".
Well, no. As I understand it, the garmin would issue the nmea sentence so that it ended after the second that it referred to ended. This made the simpleminded association of the garmin nmea time with its PPS difficult. It however did not stop you from using a say 1.1 sec offset to correct the nmea time using the nmea driver. Ie, as I understand it, it was solveable by a simple recalibration. ( unfortunately the pps driver could not do that) > > Cheers, > David > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
