RPI + Adafruit GPS sanity check
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sat May 18 07:22:24 UTC 2019
201905-ntpsec at jslf.app said:
> This is because although the GPS chip knows where and when it is, there is
> much jitter in conveying that time info to any userland process -- i.e.
> encoding into NMEA + transmission over 9600 baud serial line + kernel to user
> land + decoding.
> The instability in the offset is due to what? It's not the online-average of
> the lag since NTP started.
The basic problem is that the people who wrote the software weren't interested
in time, probably because it wasn't in the specs.
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