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What is the Difference Between Casio's Wave Ceptor Capability-Casio's Atomic Capability? and World Time Capability?
I thought the Wave Ceptor and the Atomic were the same thing?
Does Armitron or any other company make an Atomic Watch or something similar to Casio's Wave Ceptor? I just want a Digital Display Watch That is always Accurate that does not lose or gain any time I guess Atomic and or Wave Ceptor type of Watches are What I am wanting right?
1 Answer
- ?Lv 76 years ago
World time is that of a 24-hour clock,
referenced to the local time at Greenwich, England.
It is also called UTC (coordinated universal time),
GMT (Greenwich mean time), Zulu time,
and a few other names.
So-called "atomic" timepieces of any brand receive special signals
from dedicated sources (such as radio station WWVB*)
and set themselves to the correct time and date automatically.
Casio uses the term "Wave Ceptor" to designate its products that do this.
Other brands normally use only the generic term "atomic"**.
Some say "radio controlled", which is better but still not ideal.
Simple, ain't it?
* Look up nist.gov for more information.
** The ultra-precise clocks on which this system of timekeeping is based
don't depend on radioactivity, but rather on normal atomic activity.