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For a non braindead implementation? You can run NTP and never adjust anything.
by outworlder 7y ago
For a non braindead implementation? You can run NTP and never adjust anything.
- rjsw 7y agoYou still need to be able to choose what time the alarm should go off, NTP won't help with that.
- kempbellt 7y agoHow would you setup access to NTP? Hardwire the alarm to your router? Wifi access? If wifi, how do you setup the wifi? Adhoc wifi with a proprietary app? Still leads to the same problem. Also, as @rjsw mentions, accessing NTP doesn't help with setting alarms. Just setting the clock time - assuming your timezone is set correctly by the device.
- shaftway 7y agoIf only we had some kind of National Institute of Standards and Technology that broadcast the time and daylight savings flags in a machine readable format.
- scintill76 7y agoIf only it were possible to receive such a broadcast without needing wifi.
- kempbellt 7y agoGPS clocks do just this - https://timetoolsltd.com/gps/what-is-the-gps-clock/ https://timetoolsltd.com/gps/what-is-the-gps-clock/
- felipelemos 7y agoGPS clocks works inside a bedroom without a clear view of the sky?
- icebraining 7y agoMy GPS receiver works just fine inside, even with the window blinders closed. I suppose it might not in a windowless room.
- jodrellblank 7y agoSo do non-GPS plain old longwave and shortwave radio clocks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock
- treve 7y agoGPS clocks respect local timezone and DST rules?
- dreamcompiler 7y agoI have several in my house. NTP amd WWVB are two different things.
- scrooched_moose 7y agoIt is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB I've had several that set automatically after plugging in, without the need for wifi.
- p1mrx 7y agoIt is possible to find real WWVB clocks, but note that most of the cheap "auto set" ones just have a lithium battery to remember whatever time was set at the factory. It'd be cool if WiFi routers could broadcast the time unencrypted, for use by passive receivers, but that would get annoying if one near you is set wrong. Perhaps there could be a trusted source of signed timestamps, and a receiver just takes the maximum.
- codedokode 7y agoDon't mobile networks broadcast the time already?
- Gibbon1 7y agoBetter is just use GPS. You can passively listen without being tracked and you get the time and location. GPS is getting cheap enough ($10/1000 qty) to be a good option for this sort of thing.
- onemoresoop 7y agoThere was a trick I used to do to beat my lateness. Used to make set my alarm clock run fast, I guess that's not possible anymore