Hi
Thanks for all the information.
I have to read a lot.
Till then I buy a cheap timer in the shop on the corner.
Peter

Op dinsdag 20 april 2021 om 09:45:10 UTC+2 schreef Eur van Andel:

> Hi Zet
>
> Olivier Seitz has said a lot of useful things about keeping time already. 
> I can add that some  PIC18Fs have hardware real time clocks, some even with 
> support for a 32kHz watch crystal on special pins. This will be accurate to 
> minutes per year. 
>
> Keeping time is of no use without syncing. That also holds for calendars. 
> Syncing is so important for agriculture that several ancient civilisations 
> spent insane amounts of work erecting huge stones to sync their calendars 
> with the orbit of the planet. 
>
> If you want to sync your time, you need to connect to a network. I do this 
> in several ways:
>
> - with an RN171 wifi module, which is end-of-life, so not recommended
> - with an ESP32 which is cheap but overkill
> - with a SIM800L GSM module, which needs a SIM card
>
> SIM cards with data prices of €0.01/MB can be bought for €10 at keepgo.com
> The SIM800L can be bought on AliExpress for €2
> I wrote a library for the SIM800, which I can add to jallib if you are 
> interested. The SIM800 is 2G only, so your country should still support 
> that. Europe does. 
>
> The mobile network knows both the time, the time zone and the local DST. 
> (Daylight Savings Time)
>
> A low cost solution could be a local “Stonehenge” with a narrow slit and a 
> small solar cell that gives a good signal in direct sunlight. This would 
> require a fixed location for the hardware and an unobstructed view to (a 
> part of) the southern sky. You will also have to do some astronomical 
> calculations. The Druids in England did those 5000 years ago, without the 
> internet, so that won’t be too hard. 
>
> You will be on solar time and syncing with a calendar will be hard, next 
> to impossible. So when the DST kicks in will be unknown. 
>
>
> On 19 Apr 2021, at 23:23:03, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Does a library excist with timezone Amsterdam so the microprocessor can 
> use it to send an order to start or stop a device every day at the same 
> time? 
>
>
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> ir EE van Andel [email protected]  http://www.fiwihex.nl
> Fiwihex B.V. Wierdensestraat 74, NL7604BK Almelo, Netherlands
> tel+31-653-286573
>
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