Time code Updates with clock change

The BBC time signal on analogue is right ! The digital DAB runs slow due to the time required to digitise and convert back to sound ! Noel.

The National Physical Laboratory used to issue a disk that could establish the offset required to set your PC time accurately, the delays encountered across the internet can be considerable. Although freeview and iPlayer are both digital sources they are far out of sync with each other being entirely different systems.

Mike

S*ds, forgot about the car clock. Updated to BST in July.

Regards Ian.

Finally reset the car clocks. Both have gained a few minutes!

Had forgotten the procedure, so took several minutes to rest to match R C watch.

The three RC clocks are keeping in step, 1 MSF, one offset from DCF., the third with hands manually rest from DCF.

PC agrees time with watch so all's well that ends well until the next time.

Bet that there is at least one clock somewhere that I've missed!

Howard

Windows time drifts more than other operating systems and can be off by tens of seconds even if the user has synchronisation switched on. Not sure why; probably the OS simply doesn't check an internet time service all that often, and relies on whatever clock happens to be in the computer, good or bad!

Anyone who wants to check their computer's time-keeping can click on time.is At the moment time.is says of my Linux workstation: The difference from Time.is was +0.131 seconds (±0.169 seconds).

Dave

Slightly intriguing annoyance on my dual-boot PC is that if I use Linux followed by Windows during BST, the Windows time is an hour out (i.e. GMT) until resynched manually.

Rob