Man I gotta get this watch. I hate being 50 nano seconds late
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Apple's Kevin Lynch Explains Method Behind Apple Watch's Precise Timekeeping
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It normally doesn't make a difference, but when you're trying to check in to your Southwest flight online precisely 24 hours before departure, it absolutely does help.
The man with one watch always knows what time it is. The man with two is never sure.
You are not the only one.. The Watch expert cited in the articles says :
"He noted that there are a number of "exotic watches from brands like Bathys and Hoptroffthat actually contain chip-sized atomic clocks which are, to date, the most accurate electronic watches in the world. ...
Ultimately, Adams thinks the Apple Watch is just as accurate as your iPhone, which, of course, also "benefits from receiving updated time information from signals that originally come from atomic clocks. ...
I can't think of another timepiece in 2015 that enjoyed more wrist time than the Apple Watch — which I think is a remarkably impressive product."
so I don't understand what the hoopla is about. What's so amazing about implementing a portable device sync'ng off atomic ntp servers? What breakthroughs does it bring to the table (that Bathys or Hoptroff didn't already bring)? It's all in product development, not in underlying tech or accuracy.
I've come to accept that switching watch faces is easy enough that, when I occasionally need something that my current face doesn't show, just swap faces real quick and swap back when you're done.
Though I would very much like more customization options for the faces.
I suppose "whole-life of Rolex watches" were the key words to look for in that sentence
Like I said, bad hire. Doesn't matter who tried to hire him. Steve made some mistakes.
It's just a computer in rack somewhere. Same as yours, just built with slightly better parts.
As with your computer there are dozens of reasons it can lose track of tine.
It's actually cool that they have the time synced this perfectly - definitely a geek feature, but it makes me appreciate my "simple" G-Shock GB6900AA that much more--which syncs via Bluetooth to my iPhone and automatically updates to the iPhone's time. ...not to mention the fact that it alerts me when I have an incoming call (not with caller ID but just a vibration and a message on the screen: "incoming call" -- and since my phone is constantly on the Do Not Disturb function with only Favorites=Family allowed through, I know it's important when it alerts me). Yes, I get that the Apple Watch does this, but my watch cost me less than $100, lasts 2 years on a battery, looks cool, can survive drops, extreme temperatures, elements, water etc. etc.
To each his own, but IMO the Apple Watch is silly and I'll stick with my G. Course I'll also stick to my 4" screen (5S 32GB) until Apple pries it out of my cold bitter hands and at gun point forces me to use their iPad-phones (aka 6, 6+, 6S, 6S+).
PS: My G makes Safari feel snappier when it's tethered via Bluetooth. It's a feature Casio patented I think--heard that on some fan rumor site
What would be the point of a computer watch if it couldn't keep time? Especially with the challenges of competing resources via various chips on the device etc. I bet we could find timing flaws in the Android watches if we tried hard enough.
Doesn't make excited with glee, but for the person who isn't a Watch enthusiastic; it's a nice thing.
Doesn't make excited with glee, but for the person who isn't a Watch enthusiastic; it's a nice thing.
I love the way an inaccurate device is now said to be accurate as it gets it's time constantly corrected from some outside source.
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If it constantly needs an accurate clock to "beam" a signal to it, then it's not much of an accurate timepiece is it?
Perhaps get a 400 year old grandfather clock and then just keep prodding the hands based upon a atomic clock signal, does not make the grandfather clock an accurate timepiece.
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If it constantly needs an accurate clock to "beam" a signal to it, then it's not much of an accurate timepiece is it?
Perhaps get a 400 year old grandfather clock and then just keep prodding the hands based upon a atomic clock signal, does not make the grandfather clock an accurate timepiece.
This is very interesting, but why did it take so long for them to say this? It's a nice little marketing point for when sal... oh I see now.
Makes me wonder why the hell Apple hired him in the first place
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Well, it's nice not worrying about changing the battery (charges via solar) or setting the time on it (RF atomic clock signal)... But Apple makes it sound like they've re-invented something, when 10 years ago technology existed (and probably longer than that) to keep a consumer wristwatch highly accurate.
A man with one watch always knows what time it is, a man with two watches is never sure.
You do know that there it takes time to get the ntp info and then change the time on the watch? It's not instantaneous.
If you want to set it to the second, yeah, NTP is fine, but for very precise time keeping, it takes a bit more than that.
Even with a GPS its not that simple; that's why you get a 8 meter margin of error.
Of course, not everyone needs microsecond or nanosecond precision.
Common case is a server is rebooted and comes back online with a time from some 59-cent on-board real-time clock chip that is wildly off (in NTP terms anyway, like by seconds or even minutes). Another case is preventing some trying to poison your time sync by taking over one of the servers. To be honest, it's been a long time since I've read the literature (I remember the days when we had to type in the correct time as a twelve digit number as part of the boot process for servers - occasionally you'd make a mistake and the server would be several years off the correct time while you scrambled to fix it. Often the first reboot of the year would suffer the same problem as he stereotypical first check of the year - right month, previous year.
The watch is not necessarily going to the iPhone to get the time. In Watch OS 2 it has the ability to use WiFi to talk to the Internet, and therefore a time server, directly without the phone being involved. I do not know if the watch does this, but it is terchnically possible.