3 ms·
I inherited one of these Casio Waveceptor watches from my father. It routinely will set itself to a totally random time far into the past/future. I've wondered
by 1MachineElf 3y ago
I inherited one of these Casio Waveceptor watches from my father.
It routinely will set itself to a totally random time far into the past/future. I've wondered if maybe contemporary wireless devices interfere with the time sync radio. Another possible factor is the watch itself is ~20 years old.
- ricc 3y agoMaybe it just needs a battery replacement?
- tomduncalf 3y agoMaybe Casio are using a Windows server heh (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37151220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37151220)
- ilyt 3y agoI also remember their NTP server being near-continously unreliable and having to change the ntp sync server on every install. I wonder if that's still an issue
- creeble 3y agoIt's not totally uncommon. I have a Waveceptor and several other clocks that use WWVB. One works perfectly, most of the others are usually good, one gets off a couple of times a year (so therefore useless), and my Waveceptor has gone nuts maybe a couple of times. It seems to be all about signal strength (and a little bit about battery strength). I see at least one of those watches has GPS reception.
- gxqoz 3y agoI've used a series of them for over 20 years and never had this issue.