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Since the dawn of the electronic age, manufacturers have been placing clocks in almost everything. This is regardless of whether any of the device's functionality required a clock. Fundamentally however almost every device has implemented broken functionality – the clock has to have its time set and reset periodically, such as this morning's daylight saving time change in the UK.
It is only in the last 15 years that some devices have started to come through with self correcting mechanisms, notably computers, phones, VCRs, and Digital Set Top Boxes. They correct by time mechanisms in the broadcast mechanism they receive on (TDT, Teletext), timesync (NTP,SNTP) through the Internet, or from Radio time signals. Almost every geek recognises this by the fact that they do not wear watches – why wear something that they have to tend and correct, when they carry around a perfectly good telephone, PDA or computer that is time synchronised perfectly.
Well most do, some are not so good like my WiFi Radio from Logik which has yet to figure out that daylight saving time has kicked in.
The point of this post? These are just some of the devices we have around the home. When will we manufacturers and system designers either remove the clock functionality as it is not needed or implement a good time sync mechanism in them so that every six months at least, we (customers/users) do not have to hunt around changing them for most of the Sunday. This is without correcting their little inaccuracies that creep in because they do not keep time well.
So come on manufacturers – remove the clock or make it work right.]]>
