Digital does not mean Accurate

[ceagle]

One of the weirdest quandaries of our technological day and age is that we have little clocks on just about everything... our computers, cel phones, vcrs, etc.... but, they STILL don't each keep the same time! ;P
They used to say if it was "quartz", then it would be, but most aren't. My pager runs fast, and my car clock runs slow, etc etc etc.... why can't we come up with a cheap, ubiquitous, non-quartz circuit that will keep accurate digital time? 8|

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and he's a cool coyote!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

*warble* ... I don' even wear a wristwatch enny mo' .... time is on my pager, which I wear nearly alla time. And also on my cel phone. And computa skreeeeeen.
But I do have a shortwave radio which can tune into that nostalgic tick tock tick tock too!

[hastka.livejournal.com]

I'm about 99.44% certain that they have wristwatches now that sync with WWV et al. But certainly yes, cell phone time had darn well better be kept pretty accurate, as they certainly have the infrastructure to make people's lives better there.

Personally, I always preferred the mechanical workings of self-winding watches, even if it doesn't keep time quite so accurately. Which makes me wonder why nobody's come up with electronic watch movement with 1/10 second sweep, or something. Although my last couple of watches have been largely clear, heh.