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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
