Off by N second errors

[Steven Sommars]

Off-list Gary referred to a fix being in gpsd 3.20 (released Dec 31,
2019).   I saw the note about "Convert all timestamp_t to timespec_t", but
can't tell if that is involved in the potential fix.  Mike was running GPSD
"git head from ~2 months ago", which is later than 3.20.
I can't tell whether the two-second error would be fixed by 3.20.

Can anyone explain how GPSD would trigger a 2 second error?



On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 12:10 PM Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>
wrote:

> Yo Steven!
>
> On Tue, 26 May 2020 11:37:53 -0500
> Steven Sommars via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
>
> > Any similar observations? Known problems ?
>
> This was caused by a bug in one version of gpsd.  New versions of
> gpsd do not have that bug.  The exact bug was not found, instead the
> entire way gpsd keeps time was changed from doubles to timespec_t.
>
> Anyone with this problem needs to update their gpsd.
>
> RGDS
> GARY
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