[LEAPSECS] DCF77, HBG, MSF, two out of three

[Brian Garrett]

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Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] DCF77, HBG, MSF, two out of three



>> From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>

>>

>> DCF77 got right, as always.

>>

>> HBG also got it right this time.

>>

>> MSF still fumbles the DUT1 bits.

>>

>> http://phk.freebsd.dk/Leap/20081231/

>

> Very nice.  Alas, my receiver isn't close enough to the computer and I 

> didn't think to record the signal.

>

> WWV got it right, as far as I could tell.  I'm not sure if the DUT1 bits 

> were correct in the first minute or not.

>

Sprint's cellular network has still NOT got it right,after four days.  My 
cell phone, whose time display used to change right on the tick of the UTC 
second, is now one second slow.  Sprint is a CDMA network, which as far as I 
know runs on GPS time, so it would appear that some code indicating the 
number of seconds difference between UTC and GPS ws not updated.

GSM networks like T-Mobile and AT&T are just fine with wall-clock time so 
they can happily be off by two minutes and no one but us anal-retentives 
will know or care :)  Verizon is CDMA so they should have updated, unless 
they goofed like Sprint.


Brian Garrett