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Originally Posted by speedfreek
They adjusted the clocks of all but the first GPS satellite to compensate for GR and SR - they set their clocks slower before they are launched so that they run at the same rate when they are in orbit as stationary ground clocks.
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That seems like a rather bizarre thing to do, reminiscent of "setting the clocks ahead" instead of just doing everything an hour earlier in the summertime! It is much truer to relativity to just use a calculation to transform from our time to GPS satellite time, rather than solving the problem in an analog form because we're too lazy to make the conversion. But that does seem to be the standard approach when dealing with time.