The unbiased FIR filter is investigated to estimate the time interval error (TIE) K-D polynomial model of a local clock in GPS-based timekeeping in the presence of uniformly distributed sawtooth noise. An estimation algorithm is proposed and applied to the GPS-based TIE measurements of a crystal clock without using the sawtooth correction. Based upon this, we show that the TIE estimates fit actual values with an uncertainty of the GPS ...