For those of you who have radio-synchronized G-Shock watches, have you ever experienced an incorrect time synchronization? Most of my radio controlled watches and clocks have at one time or another displayed the incorrect time or date, especially after a rain storm or a snow storm.
I purchased a GW-300 G-Shock many years ago, but it stopped working. At the time, I did not know where to get a replacement CTL1616 battery. I recently purchased a replacement battery from eBay. Now you can almost find anything you want on eBay.
Only time my Lineage has been off was when it didn't sync on one evening of the DST shift. I get a sync on average about 4-5 days per week in my location so missing a day is not unusual and it just happened on that night. Otherwise it's always dead on, and we get lots of thunder storms.
I only have MB-6 watches now. The other day was getting poor reception and no sync. Eventually realised watch was at TKO should be LON as I am in the UK. Surprised how long it took me to notice and realise, it then synced immediately doh!
I have never experienced any errors personally. Missed syncs? Plenty. But never a "wrong time".
In theory the time signal has error detection built in (parity bits) so the chance that a storm should cause your time to become weird is pretty low. But I guess it happens since you have experienced it.
Never for me and I own a few dozen atomic G-Shocks.
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