Technical Losing time??
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Technical Losing time??
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I've never owned a Fiat with an accurate clock. 
My Punto Evo is always fast.
My Stilo could never keep time, and I'm kinda sure an earlier Punto before that was never accurate.
The time slip never gets any worse which is weird, I guess the only solution might be to add 3 minutes to the time when setting instead of setting the clock correctly.
My Punto Evo is always fast.
My Stilo could never keep time, and I'm kinda sure an earlier Punto before that was never accurate.
The time slip never gets any worse which is weird, I guess the only solution might be to add 3 minutes to the time when setting instead of setting the clock correctly.
When you drive it close to the speed of light, time slows down for you. Jesus, it's basic physics!
Now that you mention it, it is 3 minutes slow. And I set it to my iPhone time which is linked to a satellite. Did it last about 4 months ago.
Yep, used to put it down to the Bravo charm, and just adjust it when bored in traffic
Clock drift is a common issue in many electronic devices. Synchronize all your devices in a given day (wall clock, alarm clock, microwave and regular oven, car, watch) and watch how they will all differ after a couple of months.
That's because they are all driven by quartz crystals, usually 32.768KHz, which don't have the exact same frequency (ie usually +/-10ppm, worse for cheaper crystals).
That's because they are all driven by quartz crystals, usually 32.768KHz, which don't have the exact same frequency (ie usually +/-10ppm, worse for cheaper crystals).
(This won't work for electric devices connected to the internet as they get their time from a universal source in Greenwich)
Window 7 defaults to getting time info from time.windows.com
Which will be linked to Greenwich in some way. The absolute clock or master clock is in Greenwich and all other time in the world is set by this, + or - one hour for each timezone. Even the satnav satellites use Greenwich mean time as the source. Then it is up to you to find a source for that time and set analogue clocks like the one in your kitchen wall or in your car unless it has a link to the source which many new cars do.
I know what NTP is, which is why I deliberately avoided mentioning a mobile phone, a tablet or a PC/laptop (ie anything that may connect to the internet and fetch the time through the Network Time Protocol).
Greenwich Observatory is now just a tourist attraction. It performs no scientific function now. The Americans have hijacked time for their GPS sattelites: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/utcnist.cfm#gmt
Man! Since when. When I was in school I remember learning about the master clock and how it is so accurate that It loses less than a second of time over 10,000 years or something like that. Why can't America just leave us alone lmao.
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I only just noticed the time slip the other day when I was late for an appointment. Been 3 minutes slow it made me feel a tad better until I looked at my watch.
I must have a weird bravo... Mine is always 5 mins slow. Meh.
