It's physically impossible to dedicate one satellite to time synchronization. The satellites broadcasts a time signal, but that's the time at the moment of transmission, not the moment of reception. Since the receiver by definition doesn't know where it is yet, it doesn't know the propagation delay from the satellite, and it can't calculate the time at the reception site (to the accuracy needed for positioning, anyway).
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It's physically impossible to dedicate one satellite to time synchronization. The satellites broadcasts a time signal, but that's the time at the moment of transmission, not the moment of reception. Since the receiver by definition doesn't know where it is yet, it doesn't know the propagation delay from the satellite, and it can't calculate the time at the reception site (to the accuracy needed for positioning, anyway).