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Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time




A receiver for WWVB at 60KHz that would decode the signals would be
as accurate as anyone could want.  That's the signal that your "atomic"
clock receives, so the clock *should* be accurate. You might only be
able to receive the signal in the nighttime hours, like the clock.
Typically, the clock will sync up at about 2AM local time, and a WWVB
receiver would basically do the same thing, with an accurate crystal
oscillator as an internal reference to keep time when no signal is
being received.  Such a receiver would probably cost over $1000,
at a guess, but that's the difference between a scientific reference
and a $20 "atomic" clock!
Sorry, did you just suggest that the solution for the OP's problem with
a radio controlled clock is... a radio controlled clock?

A $1000 radio controlled clock--not a $20 one.  As someone else suggested,
it is likely that the radio receiver in the cheap clock is no longer functioning, and the crystal oscillator, which of necessity uses a cheap poor-tolerance crystal,
is running on its own, and drifting off frequency.

--doug


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