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The delay is now up to 6 minutes since January !
by Aissen 9y ago
The delay is now up to 6 minutes since January !
- digitalengineer 9y agoCorrect. This is crazy. Everything from my central heating system, kitchen appliances and bed-side alarm clock is off by 6 minutes.
- beojan 9y agoYou must have a really old alarm clock. And why wouldn't you correct the time manually if you know it's drifting?
- pantalaimon 9y agoWhat innovations in alarm clock tech am I missing out on that would make me want to upgrade?
- foepys 9y agoBeing part of an IoT botnet seems to be all the rage nowadays.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoEssentially the whole "watches you while you sleep [not creepy at all] so it can wake you when you're not in a deep sleep phase." I do use a smartphone for that, as it already has motion sensors, and it is indeed somewhat gentler to wake up to. (OTOH, if I absolutely positively need to wake up at $TIME, the ticking mechanical bedside clock of my grandfather it is: it hasn't been innovated for a century, needs to be manually wound, is completely independent of any external source, and rings loud enough to rouse the dead)
- ithkuil 9y agocheap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_clock ?
- snovv_crash 9y agoA quartz crystal?
- saagarjha 9y ago6 minutes isn't a whole lot for a bedside alarm clock. I probably wouldn't correct it unless it reached ten minutes or more, which is when it would start making me late for things.
- mrarjen 9y agoOnly device I have is my oven that uses this kind of clock... but usually only winter/summer time alters this irrelevant to begin with. Not the mention a power outage sometimes and then months before it's set again. Then again, what kind of more dependent systems or companies would have negative effects due to this? Besides bedside alarm clocks.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoHeaters and similar high-draw industrial automation rely on a clock (which is not necessarily this clock - plus optionally another signal sent by the power provider over AC) to use off-peak (i.e. cheaper) power. Six minutes' running at peak power rates can get expensive at scale.
- saagarjha 9y agoHmm, I'm seeing 5 minutes 46 seconds, with a frequency of 50.02 Hz. Maybe they're fixing the issue?