Then I remembered how annoyed I always am when daylight savings time comes or goes, as I have to manually set some of my clocks such as the microwave oven, the clock in the car dashboard, etc etc.

A Proof Of Concept attempt to get accurate(ish) time from an NTP server. The result gives the time within +-10 milliseconds of the time as referenced to the DCF77 time signal from Frankfurt, Germany.

Making a microcontroller perform as a frequency counter is a relatively straightforward task involving the measurement of the time period during which a number of pulses are counted. The maximum ...