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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: alarmRe: alarm
From: Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:11:57 +1000 On 17/09/06, Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com> wrote: > Oh please. A PC clock is going to be accurate enough for you to set it to > wake up in the morning. It's not going to drift enough to make you late for > work overnight, and neither is the clock on your MP3 player. It's not that > thard to glance at it before setting the alarm, just to make sure it's > accurate. > > As for the headphones thing, I can attest for having fallen asleep many > times both with earbuds and "portable" headphones (Sennheiser PX100s). > Though my problem is that if I fall asleep while listening to *any* noise, > noise won't wake me. Unrelated to this though. > > I think it might be a good idea to abstract the alarm concept just a little > bit more, so that on non-RTC targets you could say "X hours and X minutes > from now" so that even without an actual clock you could still set a > moderately reliable alarm. As long as it hits within 10 minutes of the mark, > you'd be fine (just always set it 10 minutes earlier than necessary, > assuming that horrible a degree of accuracy, you can live without that last > 20 minutes of sleep if it happens to slide in the wrong direction, right?) This is a good idea. and could even be done by getting the user to input the current time and requested time, instead of asking for hours:min before waking up (imo less anoying for the user, definatly less error-prone anyway) > > > On 9/17/06, Stephan Seitz <nur-ab-sal_at_gmx.de> wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 10:28:29PM +1000, Jonathan Gordon wrote: > >and as for a reliable RTC.. its proably as reliable as your PC one... > > That's why my PC always uses NTP to adjust the clock. I would not trust a > single PC clock without NTP connections. Not for „critical" operations > like waking up in the morning to get the bus. > > Shade and sweet water! > > Stephan > > -- > | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: > Nur-Ab-Sal_at_gmx.de | > | PGP Public Keys: > http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html | > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFDUKxXse+NwPOAZ4RAtHxAKCvDLZPXb0JQCT0l5SN4dC19/NgyQCgrtZ2 > wMIfVTVYHq5bUpmu5zBfkDk= > =rnEG > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > Received on 2006-09-17 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |