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by nonethewiser 1040 days ago
And daylight savings?
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The time code transmitted by WWVB includes two bits to express the state of Daylight Saving Time.

  0 = Standard Time
  1 = DST Ending
  2 = DST in effect
  3 = DST Beginning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB#/media/File:WWVB_time_cod...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB

which also means that it is one more bit to set on the receiver (in addition to time zone).

I have many clocks with WWVB time. Many miss signals and become off, one even gets an error once in a while and has the time many hours off. Not all decoders are the same apparently.

Radio syncing is perfect for forgetting about setting clocks for DST on/off because the sync automatically does that for you.
Reminds me of the clock I bought which changed MST/MDT automatically, which forced me to adjust it twice a year unlike like all my other clocks, because I lived in Arizona.
Somehow my Casio G-Shock Rangeman cannot do this correctly