Malaysia Watch Forum
Main Forums => General Discussion - Modern Watches => Topic started by: kinson on June 02, 2011, 12:40:05 PM
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Not sure if this is something that is frowned upon, but I'm just curious if other people do it. I tend to set my watch 15 minutes ahead of time, which in same strange way helps me get to meetings ahead of time (or at least on time). I actually noticed that all the clocks in my house are 15 minutes fast too (not done by me).
...or do you guys set it tepat tepat? :Laughing_on_floor:
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mine is always 15 min faster..
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I alwiz set it according to atomic clock time and check its accuracy from time to time. If it falls between +/- 3~10s i am ok. if anything more i will send the watch for service
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From young i always try my best to be on time and in most cases early.
The people i see set their watches or clocks fast usually still are late or always late. (Not saying its you hehe).
So no, no need for me to do that.
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I alwiz set it according to atomic clock time and check its accuracy from time to time. If it falls between +/- 3~10s i am ok. if anything more i will send the watch for service
ditto. :thumbsup:
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Does anyone in Msia set it according to this?
http://mst.sirim.my/
Thats what i use.
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I set my time to the standard astro or radio time.
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I use Internet time server
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From young i always try my best to be on time and in most cases early.
The people i see set their watches or clocks fast usually still are late or always late. (Not saying its you hehe).
So no, no need for me to do that.
its true of your statement. I have tendency to come late and come too early :mooning:
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Speaking entirely for myself, I regard it ironic, self defeating even if after spending thousand of ringgits to get all these chronometer-certified and superlative what-nots, wasting all the time in the world to sync my watches to the atomic clock, and concerned like mad with the few seconds lost or gained everyday, to then set the time 15 minutes fast or whatever minutes for that matter. As a matter of fact, the WIS in me would frown upon that and would probably cynically smile on me ...
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its true of your statement. I have tendency to come late and come too early :mooning:
I am trying very hard not to make some smart alec remark about what you said :Laughing_on_floor:
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its true of your statement. I have tendency to come late and come too early :mooning:
I am trying very hard not to make some smart alec remark about what you said :Laughing_on_floor:
If you think in another way, by setting the watch fast will give some clearance as some my watch running slow. It give me some space before it need to be reset.
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The problem with is that is u dun exactly know when it is slow / fast unless u mentally track the date
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its true of your statement. I have tendency to come late and come too early :mooning:
Ideally it's best to try to come together :Laughing_on_floor:
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its true of your statement. I have tendency to come late and come too early :mooning:
Ideally it's best to try to come together :Laughing_on_floor:
Come together with??? :HammerHead: :HammerHead: :HammerHead: :Jumping: :Jumping:
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You guys are indeed very cunning linguist as I do not understand what you are talking about.
Perhaps it is premature for me to speculate, but there must be good reasons to setting the watch fast. However I don't see the need to do this as I am sure the climax to this discussion will be that setting the watch fast will result in you coming early.
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:Laughing_on_floor: you are both a real cunning linguist and master debater!!! hahahhaha :Laughing_on_floor:
a real good reply bro :laugh:
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:Laughing_on_floor: you are both a real cunning linguist and master debater!!! hahahhaha :Laughing_on_floor:
a real good reply bro :laugh:
we are getting off topic lol :Laughing_on_floor:
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Setting the time faster only gives me more time to procrastinate knowing that I still have more 'actual' time as opposed to the time shown on the clock, watch etc..
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You guys are indeed very cunning linguist as I do not understand what you are talking about.
Perhaps it is premature for me to speculate, but there must be good reasons to setting the watch fast. However I don't see the need to do this as I am sure the climax to this discussion will be that setting the watch fast will result in you coming early.
:Laughing_on_floor: :Laughing_on_floor: :Laughing_on_floor: :Laughing_on_floor: :Laughing_on_floor:
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Terence stop teasing him or u turn this thread into something else :laugh:
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Setting the time faster only gives me more time to procrastinate knowing that I still have more 'actual' time as opposed to the time shown on the clock, watch etc..
Yeah, it's hard to "trick yourself", but surprisingly it works nowdays (on me anyways), lol. Mind getting more feeble :p
It didn't work during high school though, as during exam days I set the clock 1hr fast and when mom tried to wake me up thinking I was late I just told her about the time and went back to sleep :Laughing_on_floor:
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Does anyone in Msia set it according to this?
http://mst.sirim.my/
Thats what i use.
I currently using this web site to set my watch,
http://time.is/
Any body using other methods?
And yes, I set my watch one minute faster than the actual time.
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I know a friend who does it, about 20 minutes faster. Not on a watch, on his cellphone.
I don't do it, something like that doesn't do anything for me.
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People who do that is 99.99% late for any meeting.
Those people dont get any respect from me at all.
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Its been a habit for me to set 10 mins faster than the MST time.
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Not sure if this is something that is frowned upon, but I'm just curious if other people do it. I tend to set my watch 15 minutes ahead of time, which in same strange way helps me get to meetings ahead of time (or at least on time). I actually noticed that all the clocks in my house are 15 minutes fast too (not done by me).
...or do you guys set it tepat tepat? :Laughing_on_floor:
U lack discipline. Tsk tsk tsk. Just kidding. I used to that. Setting it forward. Not 15 minutes but maybe 10 minutes. But to me, now, as i get older, i try to be more accurate. On the dot time setting against Astro decoder or something. But does not work on all watches as some will tend to run faster after a few weeks. Rolex is accurate, and Valjoux 7750 is accurate. Even my ETA 2824 is accurate on my Oris. Lemania on the Moonwatch aint accurate, run fast 5 mins after one month. But thats ok. U have your iPhone to re-coordinate. My small Breitling now runs faster, altho COSC from factory, i never serviced it for 9 years, so thats the problem.
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Setting the time faster only gives me more time to procrastinate knowing that I still have more 'actual' time as opposed to the time shown on the clock, watch etc..
This is self-comforting but beware cos "you may not run out of time thinking you still have time". My quote of the day. ;)