I have a number of Garmin GPS-35s and GPS-18s.  In checking before the 
rollover, some had their RTC still running and one had lost the battery 
backup.  The ones with the correct date were OK as-is and the other just 
needed the Nonvolatile Memory updated with the correct date to come back 
into it.  All were fine through the event.  I expected they would be as 
I had brought the GPS-35s through the last rollover.  I like Garmin.  I 
wish Trimble had put this feature in the Thunderbolt.

David N1HAC


On 4/8/19 10:03 AM, Tom Van Baak wrote:
> Thanks to that Pulsar / Garmin thread some weeks ago I happened to be 
> continuously logging serial/USB NMEA data from a Garmin 18x receiver.
>
> The PGRMF sentence was enabled. This Garmin-unique message reports both UTC 
> date & time as well as GPS week & second. It's a very nice feature. As 
> per-spec, GPS week goes from 0 to 1023 and GPS second goes from 0 to 604799 
> (7 x 86400, a week a seconds).
>
> And it worked perfectly. Here's the log:
>
> $PGRMF,1023,604793,060419,235935,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3663,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*3E
> $PGRMF,1023,604794,060419,235936,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3663,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*3A
> $PGRMF,1023,604795,060419,235937,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3663,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*3A
> $PGRMF,1023,604796,060419,235938,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3664,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*31
> $PGRMF,1023,604797,060419,235939,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3664,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*31
> $PGRMF,1023,604798,060419,235940,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3664,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*30
> $PGRMF,1023,604799,060419,235941,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3664,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*30 
>  //  last second of 2nd GPS epoch
> $PGRMF,0,0,060419,235942,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3664,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*36  //  
> first second of 3rd GPS epoch
> $PGRMF,0,1,060419,235943,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3664,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*36
> $PGRMF,0,2,060419,235944,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*33
> $PGRMF,0,3,060419,235945,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*33
> $PGRMF,0,4,060419,235946,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*37
> $PGRMF,0,5,060419,235947,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*37
> $PGRMF,0,6,060419,235948,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*3B
> $PGRMF,0,7,060419,235949,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*3B
> $PGRMF,0,8,060419,235950,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*3C
> $PGRMF,0,9,060419,235951,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*3C
> $PGRMF,0,10,060419,235952,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*07
> $PGRMF,0,11,060419,235953,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*07
> $PGRMF,0,12,060419,235954,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*03
> $PGRMF,0,13,060419,235955,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*03
> $PGRMF,0,14,060419,235956,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*07
> $PGRMF,0,15,060419,235957,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*07
> $PGRMF,0,16,060419,235958,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*0B
> $PGRMF,0,17,060419,235959,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*0B  //  
> last second of April 6th UTC
> $PGRMF,0,18,070419,000000,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*04  //  
> first second of April 7th UTC
> $PGRMF,0,19,070419,000001,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*04
> $PGRMF,0,20,070419,000002,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*0D
> $PGRMF,0,21,070419,000003,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*0D
> $PGRMF,0,22,070419,000004,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*09
> $PGRMF,0,23,070419,000005,18,4733.2519,N,12208.3665,W,A,2,0,337,2,1*09
>
> You can see the GPS WNRO occur between:
>      1023,604799 and 0,0 GPS time, which is 060419,235941 and 060419,235942 
> UTC time.
>
> And you can see the delta between the GPS timescale and UTC timescale (18 
> leap seconds) at:
>     0,17 and 0,18 GPS time, which is 060419,235959 and 070419,000000 UTC time.
>
> Note that GPS WNRO (week number rollover) is unrelated to leap seconds, per 
> se. They are completely separate, though both interesting and awkward 
> disruptions in integer timekeeping.
>
> But because of the sum of leap seconds since GPS time began on 1980-1-6, 
> there is currently an 18 second delta between GPS week rollover and UTC 
> midnight rollover. This is why carefully written technical notes do not say 
> GPS rollover occurs at midnight. Rather, they say it occurs near midnight 
> (UTC). Or it occurred between April 6 and 7, 2019, or slightly vague words to 
> that effect. Lots of words, papers, and all. But the above log shows it 
> nicely.
>
> /tvb
>
>
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