From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-10-31 22:19, Chris wrote:   
   > AJL  wrote:   
   >> On 10/31/25 2:52 AM, Arno Welzel wrote:   
   >>> Frank Slootweg, 2025-10-29 17:07:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Carlos E.R.  wrote:   
   >>>>> On 2025-10-28 19:35, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   >>>>>> Carlos E.R.  wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Hi,   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> I just noticed that there is a 6 seconds delay on my smart watch   
   (Fitbit   
   >>>>>>> charge 6) compared to my phone (Lenovo G52).   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Do you mean in the displayed time?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Yes.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> That would be normal, because the Fitbit has its own clock. It only   
   >>>>>> syncs once in a while with your phone.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> 5 seconds delay is not acceptable.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Well, my Fitbit Charge 5 is off (late) by 3 to 4 seconds, probably   
   >>>> closer to 4. So I think 5 to 6 seconds is not that bad.   
   >>>   
   >>> I would consider it *bad* if a watch is always 5-6 seconds off when it   
   >>> connects via Bluetooth to a smartphone and could easily adjust it's time   
   >>> then.   
   >>>   
   >>> My Casio ABL100 is syncing its time 4 times a day with my smartphone and   
   >>> it is always accurate within around 0.2 seconds.   
   >>>   
   >>> [...]   
   >>>> Bottom line: It's a watch.   
   >>>   
   >>> Yes - and a watch should show the exact time and not 5-6 seconds off.   
   >>> Even cheap digital watches are able to do this.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Wow. Complaining over being a few seconds off?? I guess I must have had a   
   >> tough youth then. My windup watch was a minute off a day. The horror!! But   
   >> the good part was I got my exercise when I had to wind it. And gosh I often   
   >> had to (gasp) reset it. How did I ever survive?? You kids today just don't   
   >> know how good you have it...  ;)   
   >   
   > You're missing the point. A watch in 2025 should be able to be accurate to   
   > within a second and not drift within 24 hrs. Especially one so   
   > technologically advanced as a smartwatch.   
      
   Not only 2025, but a watch that is constantly communicating via radio   
   with the smartphone. Surely sending timestamping packets should be trivial.   
      
   A standalone watch with a quartz crystal can deviate up to 4 seconds a   
   day, I think. But a watch with digital radio communications with another   
   device should be totally in sync, because that is what we pay for. I'm   
   talking as an electronics engineer.   
      
   >   
   > That it is drifting is sloppy design and lack of attention to detail.   
      
   Yes.   
      
   >   
   > A half decent analogue watch is better than that.   
      
   Well, it kept the same offset for days. It is not drifting, which means   
   the sync works badly, but there is some syncing going on so that the   
   watch doesn't deviate further.   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
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