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Stephen Dailey writes:

> The Super Chief appears to be a concept vehicle, so the short answer would
> be no: no one owns one as a car since they're not for sale. :-) However,
> the Super Chief is based on the F250 4-door pickup, which is quite
> common. I see them a lot at gas stations. They seem to spend a lot of
> time there.

The Super Chief looks way too much like that eerie, demonic car in the
movie _The Car_.

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Jim Ley writes:

> You're assuming the inconvenience was the getting it out of the
> pocket, rather than the remembering to carry, transfer between
> clothes, risk of losing etc.

No. Pocket watches were often attached to a chain that could in turn
be attached to clothing, precisely for the purpose of preventing what
you describe.

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Jim Ley writes:

> Interesting claim you're making, and one which has little basis in
> fact, it will of course depend on what technology your mobile phone is
> operating on, as certain formats rely on very accurate clocks and send
> the exact time to the phone, they're likely a lot more accurate than
> your watch.

My watch is accurate to 1 second in three million years. No cellphone
does better than that.

In fact, I wasn't aware of any cellphones that do anything to keep
accurate time. Which ones have such a feature?

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Miguel Cruz writes:

> In some places (e.g., USA) the time on the phone is set by the network
> and I must assume that's very precise.

It depends on the network; they don't necessarily set their clocks
carefully, although the smart ones do.

> It always agrees with the time on my computer, which is a good sign.

You can use NTP to keep your computer within milliseconds of the
correct time. This is built in to recent versions of Windows,
although I can't remember if it is enabled by default (and it only
synchronizes once a week by default, which can leave your PC several
minutes off).

> Elsewhere I have to set it myself and I find that it loses a minute or
> two a week, which is fine for my purposes. Do you require more precision
> than that?

Yes. I want it to be perpetually correct within a fraction of a
second. It's easy to find watches like this today, and they are
inexpensive.

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mrtravel writes:

> A lot of them are time synced. My phone changes timezones when turned on
> after arriving in a new timezone.

To what source are they synced?

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