Hi,

You can get time accurate to the second from GPS, particularly if you
monitor the NMEA strings.

Regards

On May 5, 3:55 pm, David Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> Having tried to develop a sophisticated App for a sporting season
> where the key idea is Time and Space coordinates of the user relative
> to the game (ie, how long to go to the next match and how far away in
> space), for me the very worst "feature" of Android is the completely
> useless real time clock provided by Android.
>
> In the 21st century, with high precision GPS clocks and SDH (Sonet)
> synchronised mobile/cell base stations, why is it impossible to get an
> accurate time reference in Apps? I mean we should expect millisecond
> precision, but do we get centisecond or even decisecond precision?
>
> No, we get some vague time reference so that users even with the same
> handset or device can vary by tens of seconds, or even minutes.
>
> What's up with that? Why can't we get accurate time on a device that
> has access to the most precise sources we have ever built? The
> standard build does not even reset the second when the user press
> "set" for a time if they try to set it manually.
>
> This for me is simply appalling, and I think the entire Google team
> should hang their heads in shame, it is just woeful that a user has to
> live with such a poor QOS in the time dimension.

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