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When I picked the car up the clock was 4 minutes fast. Soon, it was more like 5 minutes. I set it bang on to the second with the Radio 4 pips. It's already a minute fast again.
This seems to happen in the Yaris I drive at the moment. It seems to be about a minute every couple of months or something. I don't mind it too much because with any timepiece there is always a slight inaccuracy
I'm thankful that the clock goes *faster* than actual time rather than *slower* - at least if I'm driving somewhere for an appointment or to meet somebody and I imagine the car's clock to be the real time, there is always a minute or so spare.
I have a bad habit with time keeping; most journeys i never follow the good advice to set off in good time in case of bad traffic.
perhaps an interesting sidenote to this is that i wear a Casio Wave Ceptor watch.
http://www.casio.co.uk/products/Watches/Wave%20Ceptor/http://waveceptor.casio.com/my particular one is also solar powered (charges an internal battery so i can use it when i'm a vampire) - i've had it for about 3 years, i've not had to change the battery or ever correct the time, it updates from GMT to BST by itself.
I understand timepieces that update themselves in this fashion are deemed 'radio-controlled'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clockhttp://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/rctime.htmlit would be a nice touch if manufacturers started adding this to cars (assuming they don't do this already) meaning that a clock would never be more than a second inaccurate in a 24hr period.
