From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-11-04 00:10, Clare Snyder wrote:   
   > On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 23:18:36 +0100, "Carlos E.R."   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-11-03 14:34, Ed P wrote:   
   >>> My GPS for navigation knows where I am within about 10 feet, the local   
   >>> radio station can be tuned for miles.   
   >>   
   >> My car radio has has RDS, which means my car can get the time   
   >> automatically. It is useless, the stations have wrong time by hours and   
   >> minutes.   
   >>   
   >> I have a desktop RDS receiver. It says it is now 18:43, when it is   
   >> actually 23:17. On one of the important national wide radio networks.   
   >    The shortwave radio time standards (like CHU in Canada) only   
   > broafcast "co-ordinated Universal Time" signals (which I believe are   
   > "Greenwich Mean Time) and are not location specific and do not handle   
   > daylight savings time. Local time and DST must be handled by   
   > programming in the recieving device - entered by the operator and not   
   > "portable" across time zones. GPS based time is fully portable and can   
   > determine if DST is applicable based on date and location - but would   
   > still require "updates" if DST was repealed in any geopolitical area.   
      
      
   Yes, I can accept the clock in the radio having a different time zone.   
   Easy to explain. But not when the minutes are 17 and it says 43. The   
   minutes must match.   
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
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