A method for recovering the symbol time by a receiving device in order to decode a sequence of symbols transmitted by a transmitting device, the symbol time of the transmitting device having a bias relative to the symbol time of the receiving device, said method comprising: - a sampling of a baseband signal representative of said sequence of symbols, each symbol being associated with a sampling symbol instant, - for a symbol, called current symbol, a detection of a transition between the current symbol and the symbol preceding the current symbol, said transition being detected if the current symbol and the preceding symbol have different states, - in the presence of a transition: ∘ a measurement of an absolute error on the symbol instant of the current symbol, ∘ an update, depending on the measured absolute error, of a statistical model of the bias between the symbol time of the transmitting device and the symbol time of the receiving device, ∘ a correction of the symbol instant of the subsequent symbol depending on the measured absolute error and/or depending on a bias estimated from the statistical model, - in the absence of a transition: ∘ an extrapolation of a relative error on the symbol instant of the current symbol from a bias estimated from the statistical model, ∘ a correction of the symbol instant of the subsequent symbol depending on the extrapolated relative error. - a sampling of a baseband signal representative of said sequence of symbols, each symbol being associated with a sampling symbol instant, - for a symbol, called current symbol, a detection of a transition between the current symbol and the symbol preceding the current symbol, said transition being detected if the current symbol and the preceding symbol have different states, - in the presence of a transition: ∘ a measurement of an absolute error on the symbol instant of the current symbol, ∘ an update, depending on the measured absolute error, of a statistical model of the bias between the symbol time of the transmitting device and the symbol time of the receiving device, ∘ a correction of the symbol instant of the subsequent symbol depending on the measured absolute error and/or depending on a bias estimated from the statistical model, ∘ a measurement of an absolute error on the symbol instant of the current symbol, ∘ an update, depending on the measured absolute error, of a statistical model of the bias between the symbol time of the transmitting device and the symbol time of the receiving device, ∘ a correction of the symbol instant of the subsequent symbol depending on the measured absolute error and/or depending on a bias estimated from the statistical model, - in the absence of a transition: ∘ an extrapolation of a relative error on the symbol instant of the current symbol from a bias estimated from the statistical model, ∘ a correction of the symbol instant of the subsequent symbol depending on the extrapolated relative error. ∘ an extrapolation of a relative error on the symbol instant of the current symbol from a bias estimated from the statistical model, ∘ a correction of the symbol instant of the subsequent symbol depending on the extrapolated relative error.