[time-nuts] Lucent / Z3810A log time offset.

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Here’s what I’m suggesting:

The local time is updated *after* the GPS Valid hits the log. Put another way, the time used for the log is *not* corrected to GPS time until after the valid message is logged.

Bob

> On Dec 7, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Paul <tic-toc at bodosom.net> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Bob Camp <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:
> 
>> If the magic "write the time to flash" routine runs once every 2 hours,
>> then that would explain the log. Numbers like 4 or 8 times a day are not
>> uncommon for this sort of thing.
> 
> 
> I'm being unclear.  If you look at a Z3811 log you'll see that the
> timestamps immediately after [GPS valid] are now GPS time -- prior to [GPS
> valid] they're deltas from the previous midnight.  This happens with
> various power reset intervals (I've fiddled) unless, at least in one case
> for me, the power reset happens less than ~20 seconds after the last one
> i.e. before [Power settings ok].  Also based on my experience the "bad"
> [GPS valid] message, unlike the others, isn't propagated to the Z3812 log.
> 
> I'm not sure I want to conduct the rapid reset experiment to see if this
> was a glitch, bug or feature.
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