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[vdr] Re: Timer Problem



Axel Gruber wrote:
> 
> > The time bases of the various transponders are apparently not very exact.
> > I wonder what keeps the tv stations from broadcasting the exact time?!
> > You can get a cheap DCF77 module from Conrad for only a few Euros.
> 
> I use "NETDATE" to update the thime on my VDR-Machines once every day ...
> 
> Cheap and exact enough :-)

I didn't mean that *you* (the reader of my posting) should get a DCF77 clock,
but rather the *tv stations* should take come extra efforts to set their
time base correctly. There is only *ONE* time that every tv station should
broadcast, and that's the exact time in UTC - anything else is as good as
yesterday's newspaper...

Klaus
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