Mission Planner HUD GPS time

Ground Control Software Mission Planner
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hi,

on the mission planner HUD there a “GPS time” in the top right corner.

my question; has this time been corrected to account for the difference between GPS time and Universal Coordinated Time? or is the uncorrected GPS time; which is ahead of Universal Coordinated Time by 18 seconds (because GPS time does not correct for leap seconds)

thanks in advance
Jeff

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I have no clue what is happening on the GCS side, and it might depend on your GPS unit but I can report that with a u-blox GPS we ask the GPS to provide us with UTC time rather then GPS time, although there may be a shift that happens when we finally get the number of leap seconds). (If you have a battery this will probably not ever noticeably manifest, or if you are tracking GLONASS you should get all the correction information quickly)

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who said it was gps time?
its the time of the last valid mavlink read in your local pc time.