[time-nuts] Re: Power and heat re: Heathkit WWV clock / where are the good oscillators?

[Bill Beam]

On Sun, 7 Aug 2022 15:59:53 -0800, Bob kb8tq via time-nuts wrote:

>Hi

>Backing up a bit:

snip

>If you make wrist watches, the most common solution to this is to set them
>so they typically go a bit fast. Apparently folks donG��t seem to mind arriving 
>a bit early. They get bothered when they show up late. Back in the day, 
>that set target was 10 seconds a month. These days, itG��s not quite that much.


It's only a bother in a horse race.

A watch that is a few seconds fast is easy to reset; just stop it for those few seconds then restart.
If the watch is slow then the hands have to be advanced before restarting.

Regards.


Bill Beam
NL7F