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Re: GPS time for celestial
From: Richard B. Langley
Date: 1997 May 24, 08:54 EDT
From: Richard B. Langley
Date: 1997 May 24, 08:54 EDT
On Fri, 23 May 1997, Robert Goley wrote:
> sentence caught my eye and seems germane: "The navigation
> message ... contains coefficients for ionospheric delay models
> used by C/A receiver and coefficients used to calculate Universal
> Coordinated Time (UTC)." From this I'm assuming (!!!!) that "GPS
> time" is UTC.
Yes and no. Most receivers display UTC using the information in the
message to covert from GPS Time to UTC. See
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/gpstt.html for more info.
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