TT910 Time setting

pepperm · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 13, 2006 Posts: 48

Why is it that my TT910 asks me the time? Can't it set the time from the GPS signal?

Mark

Tumbleweed · Frequent Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 315

pepperm · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 13, 2006 Posts: 48

My experiences are the same.

It's strange that we have all those atomic clocks up there sending time information and yet TomTom don't seem to use one of them to set the time. It can be done because I have a little utility on my Ipaq that reads the GPS time and sets the clock.

Why not on the TomTom Gos?

Mark

pepperm · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 13, 2006 Posts: 48

What is worse is that I have just noticed that if you go to the GPS signal monitoring screen the GPS UTC time is displayed in the top right corner. So the time is available to the program, it just isn't used for some reason.

I wonder why not?

Mark

mikealder · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 4:19 pm Post subject:

Go to Preferences/ set clock then select the time format you want, on the next page is a "Sync" button (lower Left) hit this and it will align the clock to the GPS time, make sure you have a good reliable fix first though - Mike

pepperm · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 13, 2006 Posts: 48

I missed that one, maybe I didn't have a lock when I set the time.

It should do it automatically though.

Thanks for the info though

Mark

eddie_vincent · Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 9:06 am Post subject:

You can't set the time just by using the GPS signal. It's OK for the minutes/seconds but you still have to set the hour depending upon where you live. As far as I can see, the sync button only sets the time (minutes and seconds only) once - it does not keep the time in sync.
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mikealder · Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 9:12 am Post subject:

That is correct, you set the hour manually so as to cater for time zones - the update is mins/ secs via the sync - Mike

TuurG · Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject:

and v6 will do the syncing via GPS clock automatically based on the initial timezone setting
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fysmd · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 3:52 pm Post subject:

OK so what am I missing. Once it has a fix it knows exactly where it is, and therefore which timezone it's in. Worst it could be would be an hour out due to daylight saving???

mikealder · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject:

Set the hour, make sure you have a good sat signal, then press the "Sync" key within the clock page, this will update the time clock on the unit to the very accurate GPS time - Mike

PatC · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject:

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