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Using a Casio Wave Ceptor as a timing device

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I don't know other member's strategies for setting their watches of a morning, but i have a Casio Wave Ceptor (£10 off eBay) sat near my watch box that i use to set to. All fine and dandy, but it the thing doesn't seem to be clever enough to adjust for Daylight Saving Time. It is in 'Auto' and 'DST' modes, which i believe are meant to account for this, but it never seems to adjust automatically, and i always have to fiddle.
Am i missing a trick?

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SkunkPrince
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I don't know where you are, but in the US, DST was changed after that watch was made, so it will never be correct for current DST.
 
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The switch to DST is part of the encoding of the signal from the transmitter (bit 58 of 60), so the receiving device should not need to know. But there are some weirdnesses in DST observation like entire states in the USA not using DST. @john_coburg is probably in the UK if he bought the watch for GBP10 and the watch could be using the British transmitter at Anthorn or the one of three in Germany. One thought is that the watch looks rather old and it could be trying to find the old Rugby transmitter which was shut down in 2007.
 
SkunkPrince
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Pardon me, I did not realize, though I should have, that it was a radio watch! "Wave Ceptor" should have been a clue.
 
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Pardon me, I did not realize, though I should have, that it was a radio watch! "Wave Ceptor" should have been a clue.
Well, based on the name it could have been made for surfers to predict the next big wave to come along, so a certain amount of confusion is quite understandable

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And a bit more confusion....

"bit 58" is in fact the 59th bit 'cos computers (and programmers & other techies) start counting at 0, not 1. But then take a tape measure or a ruler, where does it start ::stirthepot::
 
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"bit 58" is in fact the 59th bit 'cos computers (and programmers & other techies) start counting at 0, not 1. But then take a tape measure or a ruler, where does it start ::stirthepot::
My rulers all start at zero, though it's not marked as such. 😁
 
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My rulers all start at zero, though it's not marked as such. 😁
Correct, that is why New Year's Day 2000 was not the start of the 21st Century. </Metrology_pedant_mode> 😗


Edit: perhaps I should explain, 1 AD follows directly from 1 BC, no year 0 between them. Dionysius_Exiguus is to blame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_Exiguus
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Correct, that is why New Year's Day 2000 was not the start of the 21st Century. </Metrology_pedant_mode> 😗
As a former electronics technician, I completely support pedantry in metrology!

(Imagine my bafflement with "significant figures" in certain classes. I still think the entire concept is bullshit.)
 
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As a former electronics technician, I completely support pedantry in metrology!

(Imagine my bafflement with "significant figures" in certain classes. I still think the entire concept is bullshit.)

I got my first Heuer at a "significant figure" birthday, so I'm not entirely opposed to superstition, folklore and "coming of age".
 
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When I think "significant figures" some few women come to mind... 😁

(Yes, I am a pig.)
 
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