Comment by gobdovan
12 hours ago
Pretty cool. Would be nice to have the equation system as well in a recap, and the math not collapsed by default. Also had to look up other resources to understad that time correction refers to correcting a relatively short window of time, as it was not clear that receiver clock is actually accurate enough for short periods (milliseconds) to treat as affine.
So the trick, as always, boils down to engineering approximations, haha.
The receiver frequency is generally assumed to be accurate. In practice the time quantization is the far bigger error and masks any frequency fault. That time quantization is why most receivers report an accuracy of 3m or 10ns.
The time correction is better thought of as the fixed offset between the receiver clock and the GPS clock.