clock cant keep up with the time

[durukan]

did anyone realised that after syncing the clock with the time of your mobile phone, about 3-4 months later clock on the dash falls behind 4-5 minutes. and i'm sure it's not my mobile because it stays exactly the same with the time on my computer. i realised that twice since i bought the car, i sync it every month now, still falling behind 1-2 mins in a month.

 

[GXbox]

Mine is always behind about 1 minute/week of my daily syncronized mobile phone. I usually start every monday with setting the clock in the car.

 

[durukan]

so should i be happy with my 500?

 

[cainy1989]

I thought I was going mad haha mine does exactly the same dash clock is always 5 mins behind when I plug my phone in, noticed the otherday when it matched the clock on my mob at start up, check the time leaving the car and dash clock was 5 mins slow

 

[GXbox]

so should i be happy with my 500?

You should.

I'm not an electrician, but I guess this problem occurs with every car. I think the clock is taking a few second nap every time the car is not running (real life 1 second is equivalent to about 1.5 seconds when the car is turned off, using battery only). I’m sure there is a smarter forum member around here who can shed some light on this, before we all die here of curiosity.

 

[mjt]

I've noticed the same thing with my B&M Tomtom unit. It's set to sync the time with my Evo but the Tomtom unit is always adrift by 1 minute to the clock on the dashboard. I'm going to disable the bluetooth sync for the clock to see what happens.

 

[hazzamon]

I'm surprised that they didn't design the system so that Blue&Me can update the system clock from the FM RDS signal.