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: 45850 - 7210 = 38640 ns
 
Hence the satellites' clocks gain approximately 38,640 nanoseconds a day or 38.6 μsμs per day due to relativity effects in total.
 
In order to compensate for this gain, a GPS clock's frequency needs to be slowed by the fraction: