What time source do you use?

[BobM]

I set my watch - whichever watch I will be wearing that day - each morning. I use a certain preferred source of time as the time to which I set my watch. I was wondering how other folks do this? ... if they set their watches each morning? If, perhaps, y'all use a better time source that do I?

I use http://www.TimeAndDate.com/worldclock/personalapplet.html

I have used the official U.S. time-clock @ http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Central/d/-6/java

But I like the presentation of the personal world clock best.

Good day to all (Good Morning here) !

[TeeJay]

I set my watch by a radio signal-controlled wall clock in the study.

[frankt]

I use my trusty pocket watch from Korea...Oh and btw...I can also use it to talk to virtually anyone, simply by pushing some buttons on its face....And I can take pictures with it too!!...And Cingular gave it to me for free!!....

Seriously though...My cell phone is plenty accurate enough for my needs!!! ;)

[mudfish]

yup... I just use my cell phone...

[mudfish]

Actually, I just checked, and my Macbook has the exact time as the the second link you posted with the official US time... I guess Apple was thinking ahead on this one...

[Watchmeister]

Cable box when at home. Cell phone when on the road.

[sssurfer]

Position of sun or stars.

[archibald]

Since I usually forgret to set my watch before I leave, I usually just ask someone on the Metro.

[BobM]

Cell phone ... hmmmm?? My cell phone does not report seconds, only hour and minutes. Maybe there is a way to adjust this presentation on my cell phone to show seconds, as well.

If y'all don't set TO THE SECOND then a cell phone or cable box would certainly be accurate enough. I guess, even the position of the the sun and stars might be adequate.

[sss]

All this talk of cell phones makes me think, "What is the need to wear a wrist watch today if one carries their cell phone with them everywhere they go? However, a cell phone would be uncomfortable strapped to the wrist... What size strap would be best... 36mm, 40 mm?

[mkultra]

Actually, I just checked, and my Macbook has the exact time as the the second link you posted with the official US time... I guess Apple was thinking ahead on this one...

I use my macbook too.

Although ive found guesswork to be good lately too

[jkerouac]

I recommend against scheduling appointments with me on cloudy days.

Note: Where I live in the US Pacific Northwest it is cloudly a lot.

[AllergyDoc]

Usually the XM radio in the car. Sometimes time.gov

[FxrAndy]

Generaly i set my railmaster with GPS and then set every other watch off that, it is good for a month, i set the clock in the car from GPS and then check via that on the way to work.

[Pugwash]

Another vote for "MacBook" here.

[Corgi]

I have an "atomic" clock that synchronizes itself with the precise time emitted by a scientific laboratory somewhere in Oregon.

[Stephane]

the site a friend of mine made for me: www.shitinerand.com

@Pug: 100% made on Mac.

[Victoria]

Cable box when at home. Cell phone when on the road.

Good question.

Similar to Kruzer00.

I have a triangulation of sources when I set my Panerais (16 and counting). Computer clock synchronised with .gov source. Then I look up to the cable box to confirm, comparing it at the same time to my mobile time. As I set each watch (doesn't take but 5 minutes total for all -- I'm fast), I am looking at all three in rapid succession.

Utterly doollally, obviously, but there you are.

(Oh, and I wind each PAM 30 times. No more, no less)

[kasigi]

I set my watch by a radio signal-controlled wall clock in the study.

This works for me.

Note: The one I use is in my study, not in TeeJays!

[Victoria]

Note: The one I use is in my study, not in TeeJays!

Either you're a lawyer, with a precise attention to the skewing of facts, or you don't want people to think you're secretly Emily.

[lanikai]

like sssurfer... the star called the "Hokulea" the ancients used this to navagate.. or my cell phone

[frankt]

Cell phone ... hmmmm?? My cell phone does not report seconds, only hour and minutes. Maybe there is a way to adjust this presentation on my cell phone to show seconds, as well.

Simply "hack" your watch with the sec hand @ 12:00, set the minute hand to the next minute, and wait for the cell phone to change minutes..then push your crown in...Sounds more complicated than it really is!!

[robertk]

My Mac sets the standard for accurate time keeping in the Western world!

It is Wednesday isn't it?

[Dizzy]

I set my watches off my Blackberry... close enough for me

Lonnie

[Raijor]

www.colemanitis.com

AND

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/personalapplet.html

A Panerai GMT clock from the net and a personal world clock from the same - Cheers