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Offline rimist

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Atomic clock
« on: February 13, 2012, »
Any idea if it's possible to automatically set the Aeon to an atomic clock?

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Re: Atomic clock
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2012, »
That must be the super secret use for the unused connection at the top of the PCB   8)
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Re: Atomic clock
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2012, »
Sure get the time from the Atomic clock and set the Aeon to that exact time. Simple

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Re: Atomic clock
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I'm sure that in 1985 plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by.

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I'm sure that in 1985 plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by.

Syncing to NIST or USNO would work, since both are atomic clocks :p

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Re: Atomic clock
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I'm sure that in 1985 plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by.


We are talking about Back to the Future right?

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Atomic clock
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2012, »
Use your cell phone or a gps unit for time. All cell towers are sync'd with gps, which is sync'd with UTC (universal time coordinated -word order is thanks to the French...).
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We are talking about Back to the Future right?
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Re: Atomic clock
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2012, »
Thanks everyone, but I know how to manually set the time, I just get a bit ocd about the time not syncing exactly, and keep retrying in order to account for my reaction time, which of course inevitably varies.

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Re: Atomic clock
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2012, »
and don't forget 'drift'. :)

drift is what bothers me much.  I am confident that the Aeon is well-designed and has very little drift, but I get annoyed that no matter how often I set my new-fangled car to the time on my cell phone, i soon have 2 minutes discrepancy.

and this is a case where my car has a built-in gps.  could they set the car's clock based on the gps...?  apparently, not.

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Re: Atomic clock
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2012, »
Time is relative

Don't sweat it

The universe does not have a clock

breathe deeply and relax

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Re: Atomic clock
« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2012, »
My Aeon at work gains a second every 3 months. I reset it at the DST changes.

I haven't looked at the RTC chip pinouts but perhaps if you were THAT concerned about it, you might be able to change bump it forward or back by one second.

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My Aeon at work gains a second every 3 months. I reset it at the DST changes.

maybe the clock you reference it with loses a second every three months?
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Re: Atomic clock
« Reply #13 on: February 14, 2012, »
It's the staggered change that drives me nuts, when you have two or more clocks visible and slightly out of sync. It actually annoys me more than the audio delay between cable tv and digital cable tv on the same channel.

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Re: Atomic clock
« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2012, »
You can remove the DS32kHz chip and feed a 32768Hz TTL signal into pin 12 (pin 4 is GND).  It can come from your caesium or rubidium standard or a GPS-disciplined oscillator...
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