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Re: What time is it? (rant)
07/02/12 07:30 PM
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> > > > > Why, oh why, can't the %&$# free market even provide a decent clock for a > > decent > > > > > price? > > > > > > > > This does everything you require, needs no soldering iron, and tells you inside > > > > temperature as well. > > > > Jumbo Giant Digital Atomic Wall Clock Thermometer. > > > > It costs $93 shipped. > > > > > > I wish I had known about this clock a few months ago. > > > I might still get one like it. Or maybe not. > > > There are two things I don't like about such clocks: > > > 1) If it cannot receive the signal, the clock is useless. > > > 2) The whole concept is a cop-out. The manufacturers are in effect saying that > they > > > can't be bothered to make accurate timekeepers. > > > > I bought that exact clock (from Amazon) in January, and am very happy with it. > > > > The wall where I wanted to mount it had no reception for the clock signal, so I > moved > > the clock around the house until I found the proper Colorado-facing window. Then, I > > removed the antenna/circuit board assembly from the clock and mounted it in that > > window, with a 4-conductor phone wire going back to the rest of the clock (through > a > > hole in the wall behind it made several years ago for a different clock). -JW > > Oy. > > What I don't understand is why they don't just measure the crystal frequency at the > factory and program the ROM to compensate. (Clocks tend to be consistent in their > errors.) Or provide a software equivalent of the "slow/fast" lever one sees on > mechanical alarm clocks.
If oscillator compensation was that easy, I'm sorry I left the field.
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