What do you set your watches to?

What do you set your watches to?

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Tall_martin

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47 posts

73 months

Yesterday (07:30)
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Just curious.

As a wee kid occasionally I was allowed to phone 123 and set my watch to that.

Then it was the beeps on radio 4.

Now all my radios are on dab mostly I use the time on the work computers and don't bother with the seconds.

What do you use?

Mazinbrum

954 posts

181 months

Yesterday (07:32)
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Time.is

toasty

7,558 posts

223 months

Yesterday (07:32)
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Synch them with my phone.


Doofus

26,628 posts

176 months

Yesterday (07:43)
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timeanddate.com

snuffy

10,047 posts

287 months

Yesterday (07:46)
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The Greenwich observatory ball.

vixen1700

23,400 posts

273 months

Yesterday (09:40)
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Atomic clock app on my phone.

Ranger 6

7,088 posts

252 months

Zaichik

168 posts

39 months

Yesterday (09:51)
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As this is PH, you will have a high performance Ubiquiti/Unifi network at home.
The right solution is the addition of a Precision Time Protocol Grandmaster clock system with a roof mounted GNSS antenna.
This will provide the kind of precision needed at the relevant cost/performance level expected on these boards.

https://edgenetworks.uk/synchronisation/sync-produ...


Frankychops

672 posts

12 months

Yesterday (10:37)
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Zaichik said:
As this is PH, you will have a high performance Ubiquiti/Unifi network at home.
The right solution is the addition of a Precision Time Protocol Grandmaster clock system with a roof mounted GNSS antenna.
This will provide the kind of precision needed at the relevant cost/performance level expected on these boards.

https://edgenetworks.uk/synchronisation/sync-produ...
you'll also know that GNSS is off by a few seconds compared to UK time.

Lotobear

6,689 posts

131 months

Yesterday (12:54)
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I always rely on my deadbeat longcase regulator with its mercury pendulum bob suspended on an invar rod - either that or the town hall clock.

Soleith

494 posts

92 months

Yesterday (13:30)
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PTP signal in LD4

Zaichik

168 posts

39 months

Yesterday (13:33)
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Frankychops said:
you'll also know that GNSS is off by a few seconds compared to UK time.
I would be very surprised - there are at least four GNSS constellations available from the UK (GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou) as well as several augmentation systems that improve accuracy and/or allow for error removal.
Which is why powerfully built director types also ensure they have a multi frequency, multi constellation GNSS receiver.


Tall_martin

Original Poster:

47 posts

73 months

Yesterday (13:36)
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These are an excellent mix of Piss taking and helpful answers

blue_haddock

3,428 posts

70 months

Yesterday (15:29)
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The sun dial in the garden.

Collectingbrass

2,273 posts

198 months

Yesterday (17:08)
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I check mine against the station clock. I've heard that the station master checks the station clock against the clock on my east tower but I couldn't possibly comment.

thebraketester

14,397 posts

141 months

Yesterday (17:17)
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I have my watch butler set all mine for me.

RustyMX5

7,947 posts

220 months

Yesterday (17:18)
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I use the new optical atomic clock at JILA (which takes into account gravimetric variances observed through General Relativity) and set the hands on my Benson accordingly.

Usually though I just look at my phone and set the hands on my watch to say the same thing. By the end of the day it's only drifted a bit. The Seagull on the other hand can drift by up to 2 minutes in 24 hours which is probably why I always seem to miss the 17:28 tube back home although that could also be TFL making stuff up as they go along.

The Dictator

1,385 posts

143 months

Yesterday (17:24)
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I used to use Time.is as mentioned already, to set my Explorer, but I now have a G Shock with Multiband 6 and Bluetooth connectivity, which updates itself up to 4 times within a 24hr period.

Seems excessive, but I enjoy the technology nonetheless.

Frankychops

672 posts

12 months

Yesterday (17:39)
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Zaichik said:
I would be very surprised - there are at least four GNSS constellations available from the UK (GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou) as well as several augmentation systems that improve accuracy and/or allow for error removal.
Which is why powerfully built director types also ensure they have a multi frequency, multi constellation GNSS receiver.
I use it with a delay offset with a rubidium oscillator, I don't want to get the launch time of my nukes wrong.

The Big G

992 posts

171 months

Yesterday (17:40)
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The simple solution I have is a radio controlled wall clock in my study which updates itself once a day overnight. The drift of the quartz movement over the following 24 hours is negligible. Then if I wish to be accurate I use this. Or if close enough, then the time on my phone or news channel and restart when the minute changes. Some clocks only need to be approximately good enough!