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Re:Chevrolet to offer unlimited data plan with cars by gizmo686 on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:30PM (#13778892)
GPS includes the offset between GPS time and UTC so that receivers can convert to UTC if they want to.

This offset is limited to 255 seconds though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Leap...

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Re:Chevrolet to offer unlimited data plan with cars by ProblemFactory on Thursday March 02, 2017 @06:35PM (#13779402)
> This offset is limited to 255 seconds though.

Given that leap seconds have been added at a rate of approximately 1 every 1.6 years, we are still good for another 376 years.

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Re:Chevrolet to offer unlimited data plan with cars by simcop2387 on Thursday March 02, 2017 @08:10PM (#13779947)
Don't forget that they can be negative leap seconds too! It hasn't happened yet but it is expected.
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