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Depends, how much does your business depend on GPS time?



Well, some other comments indicate that this might affect NTP servers? Would that indicate some kind of follow on effect on database timestamps? Timezone localisation/conversions? Replication setups?


Most people using NTP servers do not use GPS units directly, but sync them to public NTP servers - for example https://www.ntppool.org/en/. Redhat for example ships these as the default upstream NTP servers. if the ntppool.org servers use GPS and gpsd, they are likely to have patched the issue well in advance.

I work in a business where we do use serial and network connected GPS devices as stratum 0 timesources for NTP, and yes we have concerns about the implications of this bug on some of our remote devices. If the gpsd starts sending incorrect time/date to the local ntpd it will probably be marked as a false ticker. We have multiple GPS based NTP servers in our datacenters as fallbacks, however we will probably need to check for a firmware update from them for this issue from the vendor.


Great, thanks! I'll continue to keep an eye on the situation at least. :)


It most likely does not. You can get accurate (down to ~10ms) time from other NTP sources. What you want from a GPS based NTP server is the PPS output, which is accurate to a few ns.




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