New config feature - time1 can declare GPS wraparound compensation

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Aug 16 17:41:38 UTC 2019


I've just pushed a change that interprets a 'g' suffix on a clock time1
fudge option as an instruction to add the number of seconds in a 
1024-week GPS era. There can be more than one g. Using this, you can
compensate for era rollover in old GPS devices.

Credit to James Browning for the idea. It's actually done at the
scanner level, so it will work for other double-valued options such
as the time2 fudge - not that I expect that to be used.

If you have a GPS old enough to require wraparound compensation,
please test; I don't think I do anymore.

I've also updated the driver documentation, pointing out where this
option is likely to be of use, and the NEWS file.

Mark: once we've tested this it might merit a point release.
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