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Even digital watches that would last tens of years without battery changes? (and where BT would consume too much energy)
by snemvalts 5y ago
Even digital watches that would last tens of years without battery changes? (and where BT would consume too much energy)
- paxys 5y agoWhy would such watches rely on time zone data at all to function correctly?
- snemvalts 5y agoA lot have auto DST that switches DST automatically. And/or programmed timezones
- paxys 5y agoIf they switch automatically then they should also account for timezone changes. Otherwise they should offer a manual update option for the user. If a watch doesn't do either of those then I'd call it broken.
- ericpauley 5y agoWWVB appears to support permannent disablement of DST [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB#DST_and_leap_second_warning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB#DST_and_leap_second_warni...