Sky dweller setting for zones off a half hour or 45 minutes

[www777]

Just curious. Aren't there a handful of timezones that differ by 30 or 45 minutes? Can the sky dweller track these? On the video on the web site it looks like when you adjust the local time it advances in one hour increments? Thanks

[Sous]

Originally Posted by www777

Just curious. Aren't there a handful of timezones that differ by 30 or 45 minutes? Can the sky dweller track these? On the video on the web site it looks like when you adjust the local time it advances in one hour increments? Thanks

Newfoundland is 30 minutes behind, rather than one hour. So atomic self-adjusting watches are pretty much useless there. Don't now about the SkyDweller, however.

[Tools]

I'm not that familiar with the Sky Dweller, but any time that you want to track a 30 minute zone, you need a separate minute marker, something that I do not believe the Sky Dweller has..

[sleddog]

Short answer, no.......it will not accommodate the half hour timezones!

[Jake B]

Originally Posted by Sous

Newfoundland is 30 minutes behind, rather than one hour. So atomic self-adjusting watches are pretty much useless there. Don't now about the SkyDweller, however.

Doesn't matter too much...most people will only ever just fly over it without even noticing, anyways.

[FremStar]

Originally Posted by sleddog

Short answer, no.......it will not accommodate the half hour timezones!

Correct!

[www777]

So what's up with that? A 40,000 watch that tracks most of the time zones? I assume no mechanical watch can do this? Can a Casio do this? Despite this shortfall still a great movement.

[ecsub44]

Originally Posted by Jake B

Doesn't matter too much...most people will only ever just fly over it without even noticing, anyways.

There are a few more timezones that are adjusted by 30 minutes.

[bernardOZ]

you can do anything with silicon, but I am not aware of any mechanical watch that does 30 minute adjustment in timezone. The sky dweller can't, it moves in one hour increments, speaking from my own experience of the watch
cheers bernard

[FremStar]

Originally Posted by bernardOZ

you can do anything with silicon, but I am not aware of any mechanical watch that does 30 minute adjustment in timezone. The sky dweller can't, it moves in one hour increments, speaking from my own experience of the watch
cheers bernard

Factual! Thanks for chiming in!

[Jake B]

Originally Posted by ecsub44

There are a few more timezones that are adjusted by 30 minutes.

Oh, I know..I was just raggin' on NL. As a fellow Canadian, it's my right and priviledge.

[ecsub44]

Originally Posted by Jake B

Oh, I know..I was just raggin' on NL. As a fellow Canadian, it's my right and priviledge.

[Andad]

Originally Posted by ecsub44

There are a few more timezones that are adjusted by 30 minutes.

And those 1/2 hour timezones are a large % of the world population (India alone has 1.27 billion).

So we are banning most mechanical GMT watches in South Oz.

And buying Seiko Astrons.

[JetRanger]

The Omega X-33 astronaut watch (it continues to be the NASA issued watch, as of 5/2013) handles 30 and 45 minute TZ offsets. It's an electronic Quartz watch, with mechancial hands, so a hybrid.