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Re: [AVR-Chat] Time sources in Australia

2006-06-15 by Russell Shaw

John Samperi wrote:
> At 03:35 AM 16/06/2006, you wrote:
> 
>>Ahhh. I found a page that describes it fairly well:
>>http://gpsinformation.net/main/gpstime.htm
> 
> 
> Interesting, for this time of application the error should not
> matter. So WHAT is GPS time? (I know Google is my friend) It just
> occurred to me that it may not be just a simple matter of reading
> the time off the receiver and displaying it. Say if the clock was
> located at the border of QLD and NSW (different time zones in Summer)
> would it give me QLD or NSW time? Is it that clever to differentiate
> the border line?

Try comparing the time on a mobile phone. They *should* be accurate.

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