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Hi John,

On 6/15/06, John Samperi <samperi@ampertronics.com.au> 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?

Umm - GPS time is a few seconds off UTC time. So it doesn't adjust the
time based on your location.

You probably want to have the ability to enter a timezone factor,
which adds or subtracts some number of minutes from GPS time to come
up with your local time.

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Dave Hylands
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