This has happened quite alot recently. First Capital Connect has just issued all its traincrew with company branded Rugby watches. They receive a radio signal (60 KHz IIRC) and automatically synchronise several times during the early hours of the morning with the signals from either Rugby or Frankfurt. If you want to you can force the watch to synchronise any time, and the process takes several minutes. The master clock is atomic, so the watches effectively have an accuracy of 1 second in 6 million years, so they ought to be good enough for our timekeeping !
I've never liked digital watches so I prefer to wear my own analogue one, which is a Casio Waveceptor.
Over here all the clocks look the same, but only some of them are synchronised. Oddly enough the ones that are have a cursor which stays illuminated, whilst the ones which aren't have a flashing cursor. (Just a bit of trivia)
Last edited by Foghut; 14th November 2007 at 15:26.
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