From: HapilyRetired@fakeaddress.com   
      
   On 11/4/2025 1:02 AM, Clare Snyder wrote:   
   > On Tue, 4 Nov 2025 02:22:13 +0100, "Carlos E.R."   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-11-04 00:10, Clare Snyder wrote:   
   >>> On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 23:18:36 +0100, "Carlos E.R."   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 2025-11-03 14:34, Ed P wrote:   
   >>>>> My GPS for navigation knows where I am within about 10 feet, the local   
   >>>>> radio station can be tuned for miles.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> My car radio has has RDS, which means my car can get the time   
   >>>> automatically. It is useless, the stations have wrong time by hours and   
   >>>> minutes.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I have a desktop RDS receiver. It says it is now 18:43, when it is   
   >>>> actually 23:17. On one of the important national wide radio networks.   
   >>>    The shortwave radio time standards (like CHU in Canada) only   
   >>> broafcast "co-ordinated Universal Time" signals (which I believe are   
   >>> "Greenwich Mean Time) and are not location specific and do not handle   
   >>> daylight savings time. Local time and DST must be handled by   
   >>> programming in the recieving device - entered by the operator and not   
   >>> "portable" across time zones. GPS based time is fully portable and can   
   >>> determine if DST is applicable based on date and location - but would   
   >>> still require "updates" if DST was repealed in any geopolitical area.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Yes, I can accept the clock in the radio having a different time zone.   
   >> Easy to explain. But not when the minutes are 17 and it says 43. The   
   >> minutes must match.   
   >  It obviously has not synced for a while - - -  The last one I had had   
   > a terrible time connecting to CHU - and was TERRIBLE at actually   
   > KEEPING time. Within a couple minutes a day was doing good. Trashed it   
   > a LONG time ago.   
   >  Not like my old Seiko "little running man" watch that was accurate to   
   > less than a minute a year - like WAY less. The original battery lasted   
   > over 3 years and it was never out a minute spring or fall - and when I   
   > left it in my drawer for 2 years it was virtually dead on whe n I took   
   > it out to use it.   
    I haven't needed to buy a watch battery in about 20 years.  My 2   
   watches and my wife's watch are all solar.  We always leave them by a   
   window when not being worn.   
      
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