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Old 13th Dec 2009, 19:28
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GPS receivers use the UTC Offset message to correct for the 15 second difference automatically to compute UTC (which itself is 4 seconds behind the International Atomic Time)
I suspect it was a 'typo', but UTC is currently 34 seconds behind TAI.

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