Is your DS's internal clock accurate?

[bdr9]

Mine is 0.00045 milliseconds slow. Though I don't really care.

How did you figure that out?

 

[bultmus]

i think mine is pretty much acurate

 

[Deleted_171835]

My DS clock seems pretty accurate. I use it as an alarm clock and it always seems to wake me up on time. Not a minute late. Sometimes after a year, it's off by 2 minutes or so but I change it back manually.

Can anybody provide a technical reason on why digital clocks go off by a minute or so every once in a while?

 

[ProtoKun7]

Can anybody provide a technical reason on why digital clocks go off by a minute or so every once in a while?

Probably simply because they aren't programmed accurately enough. When you think about it, a second is 9,192,631,770 caesium vibrations, and the atomic clocks use this. Most clocks only need to keep an approximate time, as most people would probably live with it. Plus, you probably wouldn't want caesium in a DS.

 

[Kaiyos]

Mine works pretty well

 

[Hidoshi]

Mine is really acurate
It's somewhere in 2014 now (thanks to: The World Ends With You), so I already know what time it is in 2014 ^^

 

[The Pi]

my dsi is perfect but my ds phat is a hour slow each mouth but i did get it as soon as it came out march 2005 lol

 

[updowners]

Mine has the right date but it's around 5 minutes too slow :S

 

[Exbaddude]

My clock is less than 5 seconds away from the real time.

Use http://www.time.is

 

[BoxShot]

My 4 year old ds phat is pretty accurate. Its 5 minutes off! Though I set my clock like that.

No problems with DST but that's because of where I live.

 

[ProtoKun7]

My clock is less than 5 seconds away from the real time.

Use http://www.time.is

I have a Wave Ceptor watch and I can tell you that (obviously) that site is absolutely correct.

My computer's clock was 3.0 seconds behind, updated with time.windows.com, and now my computer has the exact time too.

 

[Maz7006]

Mine is 0.00045 milliseconds slow. Though I don't really care.

It could be the difference between life and death

Yeah its pretty accurate, and Wifi has NOTHING to do with it.

 

[Gvaz]

I've never bothered to check, its never been off afaik

 

[jlsyber]

Pretty accurate, may lose a minute or 2 a month.

 

[fannnkobe]

Thank you to tell me there is a clock in DS.

 

[Njrg]

By design, the DS should only be off by a few seconds on a yearly basis because a year is 365 calendar days (24 hours exactly), but it takes 365 days, 6 hours, and a few seconds for Gaia to orbit Helios. We invented an extra calendar day, February 29th, to compensate for four extra sets of 6 hours; but the extra few seconds per year are not accounted for on the DS clock's automated counting system.

 

[Infinite Zero]

Oh S***!
I havent fed my Nintendogs!

--Scenario... That's the time I mess around with the clock to keep my dogs alive

 

[.Chris]

Very. Haven't changed its time since daylight savings.

 

[Balee56]

It's very accurate.Maybe a few seconds off,but that doesn't really matter.

 

[iMinotauro]

Mine says thing like 23:32, I hate this!
(hahha and no my ds can't talk)