refclock 28 gone wacky on me

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Jun 10 07:49:22 UTC 2016


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > What you should see is the PPS bar, followed by a sentence burst, followed
> > by a pause.  If the burst is wrapping into the next second, it will be
> > instantly obvious because the burst won't finish (no pause) before the next
> > PPS bar. 
> 
> Mail crossing in the night.  The burst is starting one sentence before the 
> PPS not starting in the middle and overflowing into the following second.

That's... very weird.  I've never seen it happen.

It sounds as though for some crazy reason the GPS is delivering the PPS pulse
late.  I'm hard put to imagine how gpsmon could screw this up.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>


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