[time-nuts] Z3805A: How to correct a 1024 week date error?

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis at SystematicSw.ab.ca
Wed Dec 3 00:26:57 EST 2014


On 2014-12-02 19:46, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote:
> On 3 Dec 2014 02:08, "James Robbins" <jsrobbins at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Another option would be to hack the ntp software so it gives out a correct
> date, assuming that you can determine what the
>
>> It was sold to me as a "Z3801A updated to 58503A ".
>>
>> However:
>> 1.  The main board is labeled "Z3805A" (Not Z3801A) as are some of the
> chips.
>
>> 8.  It reports to the GPSCon program that it is a Z3801A!

NTP driver 26 supports HP 58503A and HP Z3801A GPS Receivers
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/drivers/driver26.html
but it does not handle GPS wrap - only supported by NMEA driver,
where you can find example code for wrap handling.
-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis


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