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> GPS Time is a uniformly counting time scale ... The word "uniformly" is used above to indicate that there are no "leap seconds" in this time system.
> The GPS message contains information that allows a receiver to convert GPS Time into Universal Time
In fact the article you linked corroborates this, because they used GPS time to show how inaccurate NTP servers are.
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> GPS Time is a uniformly counting time scale ... The word "uniformly" is used above to indicate that there are no "leap seconds" in this time system.
> The GPS message contains information that allows a receiver to convert GPS Time into Universal Time
In fact the article you linked corroborates this, because they used GPS time to show how inaccurate NTP servers are.