[time-nuts] Am I the only Time Nut who doesn't wear a watch?
Michael Poulos
poulosmd at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 15:26:38 UTC 2011
On 7/9/2011 10:18 PM, Raj wrote:
> I dont wear a watch since 25 years or more. Plenty of clocks around and now will cell phone and other personal devices all have clocks.
>
Watch it. Those clocks on the cell phones are consistently slow compared
to a WWVB watch. The time clocks where I work which have a phone
connection to an (real deal) atomic clock are one second slow compared
to my WWVB watch. At the end of the day I supply a countdown taking into
account the one second off. The second off is due to digital delay in
the system. It's about like having my own time clock except I can't
punch in or out with the watch. Can't have EVERYTHING!
But you are right about the plentiful number of clocks around, most
being less than a minute off, usually slow. For years I didn't wear a
watch until I got a WWVB watch. I was never happy with watches until I
got that one due to inaccuracy. I want my watch to be exact. (OK, less
than half a second off)
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