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I am trying to set the system time on my laptop computer using a Holux GR 213 USB GPS Receiver. Can somebody tell me how one can set the system time on a laptop running Ubuntu from the time information available on GPS?
If you can't find a utility program that will do it for you, then you'll have to do it manually.
Do you think you will get more accuracy from your GPS receiver than by updating the system time from an SNTP or NTP time server on the internet? Linux should have a utility included with the distro to do that. The latency to update over the internet shouldn't be any worse than the latency to update from a satellite signal if you are looking for that sort of accuracy.
...ken...
Do you think you will get more accuracy from your GPS receiver than by updating the system time from an SNTP or NTP time server on the internet? Linux should have a utility included with the distro to do that. The latency to update over the internet shouldn't be any worse than the latency to update from a satellite signal if you are looking for that sort of accuracy.
...ken...
acgsrt, welcome to the forums. In addition to what Ken suggested, see if you can find what you are looking for in: An Up-to-Date List of Free GPS Software
If your GPS sends NMEA at 4800 Baud try my time setter.