How-to use a Garmin 18x with Chrony and PPS

Time will be there as long as there is the GPS signal, but the accuracy will be lower without the PPS-signal.

You can check with ‘chronyc sources’ and ‘chronyc sourcestats’ among things, it will tell you how well your devices are working.

The GPS offset seems a bit low to me, but the above commands will help you get it right.