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To address this issue, this paper proposes an accurate fault time detection method based on Euclidean distance and Gaussian filter. Based on the phase voltage or current signal of the fault line, the improved high-order Fourier algorithm with attenuation factor is used to fit the curve of the fault phase signal data. The fault signal is compared with the imaginary non-fault signal by using Euclidean distance, and the fitting error is filtered by a Gaussian filtering algorithm to detect the fault segment. Finally, the fault is detected by pixel column, and the fault time is obtained by corresponding the pixel column and time information. The MATLAB\/Simulink simulation results and the field test results show that the method can accurately detect the fault time under different harmonics, damped oscillations, transition resistance, short-circuit fault types and sampling rates, and the detection error is basically controlled within 0.1 ms, which achieves high detection accuracy. 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