Re: Report GPS/sync time difference

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Roger!

On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:52:50 +0000
Roger Oberholtzer <Roger.Oberholtzer@ramboll.se> wrote:

> Is it possible to have gpsd report the difference in time on the
> system clock compared to the current GPS time as it sees that time?

Sure, just look at ntpshmmon while gpsd is running.

> If I run gpsd -D 5 -N /dev/gps, I see lots of things. But I don't
> think I see this time difference.

Its there, be hard to dig out.  Just use ntpshmmon.

> I use chrony to sync time. When chrony is running to do a time sync,
> I can get status info that I think reports this difference: chronyc
> -m "timeout 500" "retries 1" sources

Yup, that's best.

> But then chrony is running. I want to know the difference when no
> time sync is happening.

Why would you not always time sync?

> Classification: Confidential

Seriously???

RGDS
GARY
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