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[Steve Allen]

On Wed 2017-02-01T14:27:03 -0800, Tom Van Baak hath writ:
> 6) clock sends TAI and -N, user wants UTC
> - 6a) clock must send N1 and N2 so that user can generate UTC in all cases, or

I recognize this as the model chosen by GPS, and documented in
IS-GPS-200.  GPS also gives the epoch at which N2 supersedes N1.
We know GPS has up to 12 minutes where a cold start does not yet have
all that info, and even after that we have seen several reports of
hardware which failed to implement it correctly.

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