Then here's the bright side: in any emergency you wouldn't have to cut up your car and fashion it into a sextant to know where you are!

Joking aside, I don't understand why they wouldn't fix something like that. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it's working fine for them for data gathering purposes:

• https://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/09/ford-we-can-use-gps-to-track-your-car-movements.html

I guess I don't understand what design decisions led to a clock that can't be adjusted manually by a user, and won't update from a working GPS receiver. They're the experts.

Other sources like wikipedia/youtube have GPS covered better than I can explain it, but here's something maybe a little different:

• https://www.rfwireless-world.com/terminology/gps-nmea-sentences
• https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-mini-gps-pa1010d-module/overview