On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rob Seaman wrote: > > Like I said, the clocks remained synced through several visits suggesting that > they received a signal on a regular schedule. They do turn the lights off at > night, I presume. The underlying clocks are undoubtedly crap, but likely > can't drift very far in a day. I do tend to donate first thing in the > morning.
It seems that the reason my MSF clock didn't switch to DST was its position - moving it allowed it to resync correctly. (Possibly the problem was it faced west and the transmitter is north.) I didn't notice the lack of sync earlier because the clock has no sync indicator, and its quartz mechanism was accurate to within a second over three months. My quartz wristwatch is similarly accurate, even though it lacks temperature stability because I don't wear it all the time. Like you I expected them to be much worse, probably because of the bad reputation of quartz oscillators in computers. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ DOVER WIGHT PORTLAND PLYMOUTH: SOUTHWEST VEERING WEST 5 TO 7, DECREASING 4 AT TIMES. MODERATE OR ROUGH, OCCASIONALLY VERY ROUGH IN PLYMOUTH. OCCASIONAL RAIN, FOG PATCHES. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY VERY POOR. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
