Thank you for the reply! I was wondering about gpsd at the time of my question and appreciate your good advice. Here's what I've got from a very lazy sort of Perl-programmer mentality :^) 
perl -MJSON::XS -le '$_=`gpspipe -n 5 -w|grep TPV`;$_=decode_json$_;pr
+int"$_->{lon} $_->{lat} $_->{alt} $_->{time}"'

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Result: -123.456789012 12.345678901 123.1234 2024-05-03T12:34:56.000Z

My application requires the automated determination of timezone from GPS: 

perl -MJSON::XS -e '$_=`gpspipe -n 5 -w|grep TPV`;$_=decode_json$_;pri
+nt`timezonefinder $_->{lon} $_->{lat}`'

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Result: Your/Timezone 
sudo apt install libopenblas-dev
pip3 install timezonefinder
export PATH=/home/user/.local/bin:$PATH

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Wait for GPS: 
perl -MJSON::XS -e 'RE:while(){$_=`gpspipe -n 5 -w|grep TPV`;last if$_
+;sleep 1}eval{$_=decode_json$_};if($@){sleep 1;goto RE};print`timezon
+efinder $_->{lon} $_->{lat}`'

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Now my computer magically knows the time zone:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Your/Timezone /etc/localtime

In reply to Re^2: Total fault tolerance for perl GPS program by Anonymous Monk
in thread Total fault tolerance for perl GPS program by Anonymous Monk

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