WiFi Time

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Wifi Time31 May 2026Progress: Abandoned It's another obsessive post about timekeeping! Here I'll describe an abandoned project to build a "fake" GPS module that grabs the time over WiFi, to function as a drop-in replacement for the GPS breakout boards used on earlier versions of my Precision Clock. My mistake was being too ambitious, the almost impossible goal of getting sub-millisecond accuracy, over WiFi, using regular NTP at slow polling intervals, and with only the built-in oscillator of an

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