Clock accuracy & auto setting : digital television does a crap job of providing time services.2

Australians should not be dependant on the US 'goodwill' or US 'welfare
state subsidization' that the GPS signals it provides -- with respect to its
time signal. GPS (only when coupled with Galileo and Glonass) -- provides a
time service that is not overtly (or possibly covertly) misleading.

For people to be forced to rely upon GNSS (Glonass, GPS, Galileo) for a
time signal is rather immoral when TV transmitters (and radio too,
remember RDS) pump out many megawatts of signal each day (globally).
[...] //////////////////////////////////////// And where did the Lord
assign anyone the duty to provide you with a time signal? The United
States Government built, launched, and maintains a network of twenty-seven
GPS satellites at no cost to the Australian citizen. A Garmin GPS18-LVC
timing receiver will cost you less than $100 US.

The only "morality" involved is the questionable "morality" of believing
that the world owes you a time signal at no cost to you.

Perhaps the Japanese can help you out. I seem to recall that JJY
broadcasts a time signal; ISTR I heard it on 5MHz when I was stationed in
Japan.


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