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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2011-11-10 17:42:54 -0500
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2011-11-10 17:42:54 -0500
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Workaround for Savannah tracker bug #34710.
This is the missing tinfo file in Ubuntu 11.10.
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@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ GPSD Frequently Asked Questions
<li><a href='#tiocmwait'>PPS is failing to work under Linux</a></li>
<li><a href='#time'>How can I improve time reference accuracy from my GPS?</a></li>
<li><a href='#sleep'>Why does my GPS get lost when I sleep/wake my laptop?</a></li>
+<li><a href='#clock'>How can I initialize my system clock from a GPS?</a></li>
+<li><a href='#web'>How do I get gpsd data into a web page?</a></li>
<li><a href='#baud'>Why is there no option to fix baud rate?</a></li>
<li><a href='#willitwork'>Will this GPS work? It's not on the hardware list.</a></li>
<li><a href='#nmea2000'>Does gpsd support NMEA2000?.</a></li>
@@ -635,6 +637,23 @@ href="70-persistent-usb-gps.rules">these replacement udev rules</a>,
and the experience required to patch them so the vendor ID in the last
one matches your GPS hardware (look in your lsusb output).</p>
+<h1 id='clock'>How can I initialize my system clock from a GPS?</h1>
+
+<para>To set the time on a box that has no real-time clock and no
+network connection, you need to set the clock to any date in the
+currebt century, then run the following:</p>
+
+<pre><code>
+date -s 2010.01.01-01:01
+date -s \
+ $(echo '?WATCH="enable":true,"json":false,"nmea":true}' \
+ | nc localhost 2947 \
+ | awk '/GPRMC/{FS=","; print 20 substr($10,5,2) "." substr ($10,3,2) "."
+substr($10,0,2) "-" substr($2,0,2) ":" substr($2,3,2) ":" substr($
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>(The actual requirt
+
<h1 id='web'>How do I get gpsd data into a web page?</h1>
<p>The <code>gpsd</code> source-code distribution now includes a PHP