Re: Leap Second

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:22:52 +0000, Mark Carver
<mark.carver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Ah, so it's 'burnt' into the device's firmware ? That's OK, but when was last
>night's leap second decided upon, months or years ago ?

The GPS receiver gets it time from whichever GPS satellite it uses as
it's time reference.

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