Hi all,

This is an older post but I want to give you an update on this. ZetWeeh 
sent me a GPS Module (thanks ZetWeeh), the NEO-6M from which I made small 
library to extract the GPS time and date. This seems to work fine but as 
said it is a GPS module so it offers much more functionality than date and 
time only. I could upload this limited library to Jallib with only these 
time and date features. Updating it with the other GPS features will take 
much more time and I wonder if anybody has any plans to use GPS (location) 
with a PIC. If not then I will upload this library to Jallib.

Kind regards,

Rob


Op vrijdag 23 april 2021 om 16:12:11 UTC+2 schreef vasile:

> Kiste, correctly said about analog (I've missed a "not" in front of 
> "tic-tac") . However we lived with that for more than 2000 years (trully.. 
> much more) and we are alive...I think we can live as well without synch on 
> embedded systems. 
> Bresenham's (and Eur knows that) assure about +/-10s...+/-20s error per 
> month error after a reasonable quick calibration from an ordinary crystal. 
> Using TCXO or VCTCXO goes this error below +/-10s. That was verified on 
> various projects I did. 
> Of course it's easiest if you do not need to do any calibration. 
> best wishes!
>
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 12:48 PM 'Oliver Seitz' via jallib <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> An analog clock with hands usually *never* shows the right time, unless 
>> it doesn't run, only then it shows the correct time twice a day.
>>
>> And no, the internet time is not synced to an atomic clock, but to a 
>> network of atomic clocks around the world.
>>
>> Greets,
>> Kiste
>>
>>
>>
>> Am Freitag, 23. April 2021, 11:40:30 MESZ hat vsurducan <
>> [email protected]> Folgendes geschrieben: 
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Eur, an analog clock which does tic-tac, shows accurate time twice per 
>> day. It does not need synch. :)
>> The real question is how we do know that the network time is accurate 
>> indeed? It is synchronized with an atomic clock? :)
>> best wishes,
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 12:31 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> > Thanks for all the information.
>> > I have to read a lot.
>> > Till then I buy a cheap timer in the shop on the corner.
>> > Peter
>> > 
>> > Op dinsdag 20 april 2021 om 09:45:10 UTC+2 schreef Eur van Andel:
>> >> Hi Zet
>> >> 
>> >> Olivier Seitz has said a lot of useful things about keeping time 
>> already. I can add that some  PIC18Fs have hardware real time clocks, some 
>> even with support for a 32kHz watch crystal on special pins. This will be 
>> accurate to minutes per year. 
>> >> 
>> >> Keeping time is of no use without syncing. That also holds for 
>> calendars. Syncing is so important for agriculture that several ancient 
>> civilisations spent insane amounts of work erecting huge stones to sync 
>> their calendars with the orbit of the planet. 
>> >> 
>> >> If you want to sync your time, you need to connect to a network. I do 
>> this in several ways:
>> >> 
>> >> - with an RN171 wifi module, which is end-of-life, so not recommended
>> >> - with an ESP32 which is cheap but overkill
>> >> - with a SIM800L GSM module, which needs a SIM card
>> >> 
>> >> SIM cards with data prices of €0.01/MB can be bought for €10 at 
>> keepgo.com
>> >> The SIM800L can be bought on AliExpress for €2
>> >> I wrote a library for the SIM800, which I can add to jallib if you are 
>> interested. The SIM800 is 2G only, so your country should still support 
>> that. Europe does. 
>> >> 
>> >> The mobile network knows both the time, the time zone and the local 
>> DST. (Daylight Savings Time)
>> >> 
>> >> A low cost solution could be a local “Stonehenge” with a narrow slit 
>> and a small solar cell that gives a good signal in direct sunlight. This 
>> would require a fixed location for the hardware and an unobstructed view to 
>> (a part of) the southern sky. You will also have to do some astronomical 
>> calculations. The Druids in England did those 5000 years ago, without the 
>> internet, so that won’t be too hard. 
>> >> 
>> >> You will be on solar time and syncing with a calendar will be hard, 
>> next to impossible. So when the DST kicks in will be unknown. 
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >>> On 19 Apr 2021, at 23:23:03, [email protected] <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> >>> 
>> >>> Does a library excist with timezone Amsterdam so the microprocessor 
>> can use it to send an order to start or stop a device every day at the same 
>> time? 
>> >>> 
>> >> 
>> >>  
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>> >> tel+31-653-286573
>> >> 
>> >> 
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