Re: ESA: First Galileo satellite on orbit

"GSV Three Minds in a Can" <GSV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Bitstring <5m3er1pjjbiihpiqh8jcl6g1hnljg0dlea@xxxxxxx>, from the wonderful
> person NoMailPlease@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx said
>>On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:19:47 GMT, Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> Receivers have all the information they need to properly handle the
>>> insertion of leap seconds. Some receiver algorithms do it better than
>>> others.
>>>
>>> Reports from users will be welcome in this forum!
>>
>>My Garmin iQue M5 went from 23:59:59 to 23:00:00 (!) (instead of
>>23:59:60) at the moment surprème. Using indoors, without reception.
>>
>>Sigh.... I guess this is typical for the sloppy programming in this
>>device :-(
>
> But I didn't think the leap second had happened yet - isn't it inserted at
> 00.00 GMT (or astronomical facsimile thereof)?? Do you mean we let people
> have it at =local= midnight?!??!

We just went through it (GMT). I keep my GPSs (76CS, Vista C) set to GMT.
I'm in New Mexico. They did the same thing they did when we simulated this
a few months ago:

23:59:58
23:59:59
00:00:00
00:00:00
00:00:01
00:00:02

There was a one second"pause" at midnight.

Bob


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