Skip to content
ortsortsorts

GPS_EPOCH_JD

Defined in: mod.rs:87

const GPS_EPOCH_JD: f64 = 2444244.5f64

Julian Date of the GPS epoch: 1980-01-06 00:00:00 UTC.

At that instant TAI − UTC was 19 s, so GPS = UTC there and the GPS-scale JD of the epoch equals the UTC JD. GPS week / seconds-of-week are measured from this instant.