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aliendad
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 Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 4:08 pm Post subject: what time is it? |
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 the details i am receiving from the satallites on my gps give me wrong time? who goes up to the satallites to put the clocks forward? |
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Tim Buxton
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| Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 4:17 pm Post subject: Re: what time is it? |
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| aliendad wrote: | | the details i am receiving from the satallites on my gps give me wrong time? who goes up to the satallites to put the clocks forward? |
Shouldn't you have posted this yesterday?
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lbendlin
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the sats don't care about summer time. they always work off GMT.
It wouldnt work anyhow - right now you (Europe) are on summer time while we (US) are not - we switch a week later.
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Tim Buxton
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| Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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Lutz,
"the sats don't care about summer time. they always work off GMT."
In the interest of pedantry, don't they work off UTC?
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lbendlin
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Grrr... You want to argue about deviations in the seconds range?
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aliendad
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 11:01 pm Post subject: what time is it? |
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sorry didn't mean to start a war!
just because my gps is an hour late |
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Skippy
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 11:16 pm Post subject: Re: what time is it? |
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| aliendad wrote: | | my gps is an hour late |
You have to change the time zone on it so it reads GMT + 1 hour. Have a hunt through the settings, I am sure you will find it there somewhere.
If you think about it, the GPS receiver would have a difficult job tracking all the different time zones in the world, so they don't bother. They just use a fixed time zone (known as UTC or GMT) and leave the user to apply an offset depending on how many hours ahead or behind universal time they are. |
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