Honestly it’s pretty frustrating......well it is for me anyway. I admit I’m a bit anal about having my watch and clocks as near to the second as I can get. I’ll list some of them....BBC TV, SKY on screen display, Vodaphone, Sky speaking clock, BBC Radio pips, various commercial radio stations too many to mention, my Apple iPad, Microsoft, airport terminal clocks, train stations and finally Big Ben.....I even have one of those clocks that automatically gets the signal from somewhere in Germany (forget what they’re called) and adjusts itself. The list goes on and on! The problem is they ALL seem to have slightly different times.....if you don’t believe me and have the mind to, check it out, you’ll be amazed. No doubt many of you don’t give a shyte......but for some reason it irritates me that this should be the case......sometimes it’s as much as 10 to15 seconds or so, depending on the organisation involved! Who on earth can you believe these days......or am I just wasting everyone’s time!
because of this thread I have done some research and discovered that prior to world war 2 the time in France was the same as ours (Greenwich mean time) but the Germans being a bit controlling changed it so they were on the same time zone as the rest of central Europe. this also happened in Amsterdam where they had what was called Amsterdam time, which was 20 minutes ahead of GMT.
interesting stuff but of no use to the original question so feel free to ignore.
Or backwards as was proved on Sunday morning......at least down my way.
The atomic clock wasn't backwards. It can't be backwards. Atomic clocks by their very existence are the ultimate arbiter of 'time' as experience it - they use measurable, quantifiable radiation cycles of Caesium. Indeed, it's the radiation emitted by Caesium in a second that defines what a second 'is'. If it was out of sync, then it was your device that had fallen out of sync with the clock, rather than the clock itself having become less reliable.
because of this thread I have done some research and discovered that prior to world war 2 the time in France was the same as ours (Greenwich mean time) but the Germans being a bit controlling changed it so they were on the same time zone as the rest of central Europe. this also happened in Amsterdam where they had what was called Amsterdam time, which was 20 minutes ahead of GMT.
interesting stuff but of no use to the original question so feel free to ignore.
My microwave seems to run on a 59 second minute, so over time it runs fast. It gains up to 5 minutes a month so I have to keep putting it back.
Have you considered that the microwave.clock is correct and all the other clocks are wrong? You could be living in a really boring episode of the twilight zone.
I usually like my watch to be 30-60 secs fast, just so I'm not late to catch a train (which I hardly ever do nowdays, so doesn't really bother me). The clock on my laptop seems to lose about a minute every month and so does my car.
can't really see the issue, especially if you are only talking seconds. What does it matter ?
Ive got a 16 plate BMW that's probably got every gadget under the sun yet it doesn't adjust the time when the clocks go back and forward.
Yet my cheap 10 year old alarm clock from Argos does..
There should be a button to tick on your iDrive menu (Time & Date) where it will pick up the correct time from GPS - if this isn't ticked then you can only change it manually.
I usually like my watch to be 30-60 secs fast, just so I'm not late to catch a train (which I hardly ever do nowdays, so doesn't really bother me). The clock on my laptop seems to lose about a minute every month and so does my car.
can't really see the issue, especially if you are only talking seconds. What does it matter ?
I set up the clocks in one of my old office so we could have a coming in and back from lunch time which was set 5 minutes earlier than real time and a going to lunch and going home one set 5 minutes later than real time. 20 mins a day adds up!
I usually like my watch to be 30-60 secs fast, just so I'm not late to catch a train (which I hardly ever do nowdays, so doesn't really bother me). The clock on my laptop seems to lose about a minute every month and so does my car.
can't really see the issue, especially if you are only talking seconds. What does it matter ?
Only seconds! You are sorely misguided. 12 midday is when the sun is overhead. If you travel by train from London to Penzance on the midday train and it takes 4 hours you have been robbed of 15 minutes of life by National Rail when it arrives London time 4pm. Your train actually left at 11.45 am and arrived at 4.45 pm. It is a disgrace, all because people can't be bothered to set their watches to the correct time of day. It could work really easily using GPS to automatically change your digital watch and laptop every 5 seconds. Never miss another train again.
Wasn't there an experiment where they had 2 identical clocks, put one on the platform in London and another on a train to Scotland, which when it returned had a different time? (possibly billionths of a second). I may have dreamt this as I can find no reference on a quick google search.
Wasn't there an experiment where they had 2 identical clocks, put one on the platform in London and another on a train to Scotland, which when it returned had a different time? (possibly billionths of a second). I may have dreamt this as I can find no reference on a quick google search.
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interesting stuff but of no use to the original question so feel free to ignore.
Yet my cheap 10 year old alarm clock from Argos does..
I usually like my watch to be 30-60 secs fast, just so I'm not late to catch a train (which I hardly ever do nowdays, so doesn't really bother me). The clock on my laptop seems to lose about a minute every month and so does my car.
can't really see the issue, especially if you are only talking seconds. What does it matter ?
Use a Calendar now!
I may have dreamt this as I can find no reference on a quick google search.
https://paulba.no/paper/Hafele_Keating.pdf