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Re: Time and cel nav, a stupid question
From: Marc Bernstein
Date: 2008 Apr 23, 08:59 -0400
From: Marc Bernstein
Date: 2008 Apr 23, 08:59 -0400
Radio-controlled clock and watch updates are very much dependent upon the time of the day and where you are. In NY and New England it is hit or miss from day to day. NIST has a nice set of coverage maps here:
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:14 AM, Bill <billyrem42@earthlink.net> wrote:
Lu Abel wrote
I have a unit marketed under the Sharp brand that I picked at Wal Mart. More
> Wait, I forgot that I also have one of those digital clocks that
> synchronizes itself to the low-frequency time signal broadcast by WWVB.
> It appears to be between 0.3 and 0.5 seconds slow as compared to the
> www.time.gov display on my computer. On the other hand, considering
> that it cost me all of $6, I have to wonder whether its time display is
> more or less accurate.
than $6 dollars. It claims to poll once a day, about 1 am local time. It
has failed to make an automatic connection for over two years. Positioned
as directed, and manually triggered at the recommended time as well as other
times, it has made a connection twice in over 500 tries.
A sailing acquaintance with more money than common sense (center cockpit 42'
sailboat) has a wristwatch that cost several hundreds dollars and claims to
poll the clock six times a day. He is not sure how well it functions as the
plastic band it came with broke the first month and he has not bothered to
replace the watch band.
For what it is worth.
Thanks
Bill
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