guyfrosty

Since December 2005 when I took delivery of my 2006 XB, I've been comparing my XB clock with an atomic clock that is locked to the national bureau of standards time reference. Over the past year, my XB clock has consistently lost an average of 14 seconds a month. That's within 1/2 second a day. Not bad for a $15k car!

Has anyone modified their clock to be even more accurate?

Xblozv

the cars only got 108hp. how fast do you want the clock to be!!

ifeldwn02

lol ^

burstaneurysm

That's kinda an odd thing to do... then again, I don't think any of the time-telling devices in my life have even been within a minute of each other.

munkymonkjr

oh noez...you're 14 seconds late. lol....as long as the clock in my car is within 5 minutes of actual time...i'm good.

Tomas

Heheheheh... Some of us tend to be a bit **** about time keeping devices.

I have two 'atomic clocks' and of course all my computers synch to my server which synchs to a national standard (and I used to be **** enough about that to add in half the average ping delay my server observed to the standard, so that it was a few milliseconds closer to "right on").

My daily wear watches are all 'high precision' units, including the mil-spec USAF navigator's watch I'm wearing right now. Even at that, I'm constantly re-adjusting if anything gets off.

(Right now my wristwatch is 6 seconds fast, and it drives me nuts - I'm resisting setting it's time.)

Back on topic: In nearly two years my xB never got one minute off, which is pretty good, especially considering the variable temp, variable voltage, high vibration environment it lives in. Very well done for an econobox. (I'll admit that at each changeover to/from DST, all clocks/watches get set as close as possible to exact, so twice a year everything is reset.)

OK, my wristwatch is back in synch with my server. *sigh* Had to do it.

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
-- Segal's Law

Tom

kewlbox

14 seconds times 6 months is only 84 seconds, at the same time you change the hour, for daylight savings you could change the min. also.

I am a little like that but not that much.

pooder

I don't really know how accurate my xB clock is. After a mere year and three months Bambi smashed into it, and it had to have its battery disconnected, resulting in the clock, the radio presets, and the ScanGauge being reset so that I had to set them all up again. <<WHINE>>

Maybe this time it will last more than just over a year and I can find out how accurate MY xB clock is!

thegoatlord

boy am i glad im not under any sort of time constraints.

:D