Bob Dobbs wrote:
dave wrote:
Bob Dobbs wrote:
Bob Dobbs wrote:
Weird that even though the GPS gets good time I
still have to dither the offset manually, but it's an older Garmin.
Live and learn, mea culpa!
I discovered that I had misconfigured the DST offset awareness
in the Garmin and it does indeed recognize the DST flag.
Garmin GPSmap76CS
...plus all the other clocks got good sync,
now reading correctly,
even the two solar atomic watches.

They still had Western Union clocks at the network affiliates when I was
a kid. They set themselves via telegraph line.

http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/2...er/015607.html

Maybe that's how those old school clocks got synched,
the ones whose hands moved visibly faster until they read correctly?
Supposed to happen during the night but after an electrical storm blackout, you
could see it happen during class.

That's a Honeywell kind of clock; way more sophisticated. The big
Western Union clocks ran on A batteries and had a pendulum.