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Atomic Clock Signal
Posted: Sun 29 Aug 2010 6:33 pm
by sanramonrover
For those of you who live in parts of the world where you do NOT receive the US or European atomic clock signals - how does your weather station, like the 265NC, work? Is that signal necessary for it to work correctly? I plan on taking my unit to Costa Rica and know they don't the signal.
Re: Atomic Clock Signal
Posted: Sun 29 Aug 2010 10:19 pm
by captzero
No signal in Australia and no problems either.
Re: Atomic Clock Signal
Posted: Mon 30 Aug 2010 1:27 am
by Ned
Also no radio clock in NZ, and no probs. I don't understand the benefit of it - is highly accurate time really needed for a home weather station? My console keeps good time (better than my PC without correction) and I'm happy if it's within a minute of true time.
Re: Atomic Clock Signal
Posted: Mon 30 Aug 2010 6:10 am
by GraemeT
It might pay to compare the console time with your PC clock occasionally in case it drifts, but you probably won't see a change of more than a few seconds over a year or so.
Cheers,
Re: Atomic Clock Signal
Posted: Mon 30 Aug 2010 8:32 am
by Gina
Totally irrelevant in Cumulus as it takes the time from the computer (which in turn can take it's time from the UTC time on the 'net). G-Weather and pywws are the same.