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0 pointsrobocat3mo ago0 comments

For a low precision environment to avoid sudden jumps I used SetSystemTimeAdjustment on Windows (now SetSystemTimeAdjustmentPrecise) to smoothly steer the system clock to match the GPS supplied time signal.

On Linux I think the adjtimex() system call does the equivalent https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man2/adjtimex.2....

It smears out time differences which is great for some situations and less ideal for others.

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robocatOP3mo ago

Also I implemented a simple PID controller that could automatically compensate against some types of internal clock drift.

Worked really well for the project.

Avoiding time jumps was really worthwhile.

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