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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[rcoony.livejournal.com]

Generally I go by the clock on my satellite receiver, and set all my clocks slightly ahead of that, so I don't miss any shows. Otherwise, I just set all my clocks slightly ahead of the most "official" time I can find.

I like nice old mechanical-type clocks, myself. They are just more fun. I have a wind-up wristwatch, and if I could get all pendulum clocks powered by weights (none of these fake grandfather clocks powered by electricity and with a pendulum only for show), I'd do that. Well, I'd get a couple of normal clocks too so I'd be able to set all the mechanical ones to the proper time.

I'm thinking of getting a couple of 24-hour clocks so that I can easily remember what time it is in places like Australia and whatnot when I'm chatting online. Just the other night I came across the perfect one. Costs a little more than I wanted to spend, but it's too awesome not to get.