[time-nuts] GPS week rollover

Jeff Zambory jzambory at telus.net
Sat Apr 6 04:30:01 UTC 2019


Yes Steve, you are correct. 

https://www.gps.gov/

Scroll down a bit and you can find a count down to the roll over. And it states the time when it will roll over. Just what you have said. 

Jeff Z. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 5, 2019, at 4:40 PM, Steve Olney <t0502 at internode.on.net> wrote:
> 
> Just curious - WNRO is not an issue for me even if my GPS receivers are affected - but I note that the time of rollover is being quoted as 23:59:59 UTC 6th April.
> 
> Wouldn't the time actually be 18 seconds earlier ? - i.e., 23:59:42 - due to leap seconds ?
> 
> BTW - I'm not clear about GPS time vs UTC (which is probably relevant to the above).  Any pointers to a clear explanation ?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
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