Greetings, This email is a response to https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2020-January/105058.html in which Forrest discussed GPS time sync issues today. The galmon.eu project also monitors GPS, and one thing we found is that at 20:39:47 UTC today, which is near 2PM MST, GPS PRN 29 emitted a clock update that is pretty weird. The 't0c' is the t=0 of the clock correction parameters and it went backwards by 16 seconds, and it introduced a 5.9 nanosecond clock jump. This was recorded by 18 of our stations, mostly in Europe and the US east coast: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:47.0000 +0000 src 33 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Timejump: -5.89898 after -16 seconds, old t0c 15750 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:47.0005 +0000 src 13 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:47.9999 +0000 src 3 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:47.9997 +0000 src 15 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:47.9998 +0000 src 101 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:47.9996 +0000 src 32 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:47.9996 +0000 src 57 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:47.9999 +0000 src 37 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:47.0000 +0000 src 19 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:47.0004 +0000 src 49 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:48.0000 +0000 src 27 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:48.0005 +0000 src 56 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:48.0004 +0000 src 41 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:48.4453 +0000 src 14 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:48.0001 +0000 src 141 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:48.0002 +0000 src 40 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:48.0003 +0000 src 102 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:48.0002 +0000 src 58 imptow 247203 GPS 29@0: 247206 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15749 This was the previous t0c: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:39:18.0000 +0000 src 27 imptow 247173 GPS 29@0: 247176 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 15750 And this is the next one: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 21:59:46.9996 +0000 src 33 imptow 252003 GPS 29@0: 252006 frame 1 gpshealth = 0, wn 2086 t0c 16199 Timejump: -0.192813 after 7200 seconds, old t0c 15749 We spend more of our time looking at Galileo, but we have all the GPS data. I haven't looked enough at GPS to see if "t0c going backwards" is a common thing, but it does not look common. Perhaps this could be related. If anyone wants a copy of GPS traffic from today, let me know. Bert