Default clock module accuracy?

[rtkeen]

I’ve made an alarm clock out of MagicMirror and several 3rd party modules. I appreciate the work that has gone into all of this.

One thing I have noticed is that my alarm clock always seems to be off the system time. I’ve double-checked the system time, and it is correct, such that the alarm and module changes work at the correct time, but the displayed time is not right, many times off by a minute (ahead OR behind, not consistent). Why would this be? I’ve checked everything and I seem to have the configuration correct.

Thanks.
Ron Keen

[sdetweil]

@rtkeen can you post the clock config

[rtkeen]

Here is my config for the clock module. One thing I have figured out is that if I restart MagicMirror, the clock is correctly synchronized with the system clock. It may be that the system clock isn’t fully set when MagicMirror is started at boot. How often does the clock module look at the system clock?

            module: "clock", // day time clock
            position: "top_left",
            config: {
                                dateFormat: "dddd, MMM D, YYYY",
                                displayType: "digital",
                                timeFormat: 12,
                                displaySeconds: false,
                                showDate: true,
                                showPeriod: true,
                                showWeek: false,
                                showSunTimes: true,
                                lat: 39.94209,
                                lon: -86.13914,
            },
            classes: 'daytime_scheduler'
        }

[sdetweil]

@rtkeen every time it updates the ui it does this calculation

there could be a rounding error due to the removal of the 10s
ie, 6 instead of 60
but have never seen any other message about this

[plainbroke]

@sdetweil
Mine is off a full minute right now. Funny thing is it will usually catch up in a few minutes. I notice it most often around xx:45 to xx:49 in the afternoon, evening .
Not a big deal to me what is 30 to 45 seconds matter anyways.
Now as I am writing this it caught back up. I would not notice at all if I dd not have another clock running directly below it that gets it’s time from the network too.

[sdetweil]

@plainbroke interesting

[plainbroke]

@sdetweil
I thought you would find that interesting, I never thought much about it until the previous post came about. Like I said it doesn’t bother us or cause any issues. They really are at least with in 45 seconds of each other. If I reboot the pi it will sync up for most of the day… Maybe that is his answer to restart his pi just before bed, assuming it is that important…

[sdetweil]

@plainbroke i have a bedside clock, that gets its date/time from the signal in the ac powerline.

since i picked up an iphone , the bedside is 2 minutes behind
my android is ok… weird

[mumblebaj]

@plainbroke Out of interest and to see if you get the same issue, can you try my MMM-SweepClock and see if it has the same issue? Just want to see if it may be the module that is loosing time?

[plainbroke]

@mumblebaj
Sorry but no. I am out of pi’s to test on. And it is not something that matters to me .
What is a few minutes in the grand scheme of things.