Interfacing with a (reasonable) modern GPS is piece-of-cake, just hook
one RS232 and receive NMEA (simple ascii based protocol (ahum). Last
time I checked, I received an date/time line at 0.5 Hz.

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(3) use data from the ship's GPS system. This appeals to me
but I know nuffink about interfacing to a GPS unit. Either I can get the
data (RS422 ?) and extract the information, or detect the regular
packets of data and reduce them to simple timing markers, unless GPS
units have a handy 1Hz output somewhere

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