> On Jul 21, 2016, at 5:23 AM, Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> [email protected] said:
>> Discovered that my commercial GPS appliances opted to *apply* yesterday's
>> pending leap second, which has made for an interesting day.
> 
> Could you please say more?
> 
> How are you working around it?
> 
> Vendor?  Model?  Can you take the cover off (or peer in through the vents) 
> and see what type of GPS receiver they are using?

In earlier email. 

> 
> I assume the gear is recent or the problem would have been discovered the 
> last time we had a leap second.  Have you contacted the vendor?  Have they 
> confirmed the problem?  Any estimate on when they will ship new firmware?

We just finished replacing our previous gear with this a week ago; timing is 
everything. :)  Vendor was contacted yesterday and have supplied a patch this 
morning to reduce the GPS->UTC offset back to 17 until they get a more 
permanent fix from Trimble. I've not installed it yet, but the vendor states 
the patch won't persist across reboots. 

--n
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