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It 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/WW
by scrooched_moose 7y ago
It 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.
- Spivak 7y agoDoesn’t work super well when your clock needs an unobstructed view of the sky. How many clocks in your house have that?
- shaftway 7y agoIt's not like it needs a solid fix though. It just needs a single satellite signal to get through, which is way more reasonable.
- Gibbon1 7y agoI have a higher end GPS module. Building I'm in is corrugated steel sided with a metal roof. After being on for an hour the coordinates show... my desk. Far as I can tell. GPS transmit power is 44db with a 13 db antenna gain. I think. And -140 db sensitivity (typical) So close to 200db of link margin. And the transmitter isn't in clutter either.
- scintill76 7y agoYeah, I was continuing the GP's sarcastic comment about WWVB etc.