GPS time synch

Selem necrodome at gmail.com
Wed Feb 21 00:56:41 CET 2007


On 2/20/07, Harald Welte <laforge at openmoko.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:40:31PM +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
>
> > > It appears that most (if not all) GSM providers include time information
> > > in the signal.  Certainly I have observed this in North America and
> > > Europe.  It's probably a less power hungry way of keeping your clock in
> > > sync.  Additionally, the GSM time info includes your local timezone and
> > > DST status information.
> >
> > Yes that sounds like a good idea. I always wondered why I had to set
> > the time and date on my mobile phone when it's included in GSM anyway.
> > Harald, do we have access to this kind of information from Calypso?
>
> unfortunately, AFAICT we can only obtain the Timezone change
> notifications.  Maybe the timezone. But definitely not the time.
>
> So by combining GPS time plus timezone from GSM, we might get it all
> automagic.
>
> --
> - Harald Welte <laforge at openmoko.org>                   http://openmoko.org/
> ============================================================================
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>
>

umm, i don't know how much accuracy you need, but can't we just use an
ntp client over gprs?



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