Re: Synchronising PC clock on the GPS time using GPS receiver

From: John Navas (spamfilter0_at_navasgroup.com)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:52:25 GMT

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In <ym7Xc.8115$QJ3.910@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> on Wed, 25 Aug 2004
21:18:22 GMT, Darren Dunham <ddunham@redwood.taos.com> wrote:

>Renzo <renzo_bottuni@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> hello,
>
>> with a (Garmin) GPS receiver connected to serial port of the PC, is it
>> possible to synchronise PC clock to GPS time?
>
>> is there any downloadable software that can do that?
>
>NTP should be able to run on Windows as well as UNIX.

True. NTP is built into XP, and there's NTP software from Microsoft for
earlier versions of NT.

>The default
>distribution has an NMEA driver that can talk to most GPS units (I
>assume that's true for windows/NT port). ...

That's got nothing to do with NTP per se. 

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