Time not stored on core2duo?

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Say I am wearing my Pebble Time and I decide to switch to my new Core2Duo.

I open the new Pebble app and disconnect the Time.

I turn on my Core2Duo. The watch displays the time as 12:00.

My older Pebbles store the time and remember, even after being turned off. Is the behavior of my Core2Duo correct? Is there a setting I am missing somewhere?

Thanks in advance to any help you can provide!

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There’s no persistent RTC on the C2D, I think it’s the same on all the newer watches

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The Pebble 2 Duo will not keep time if you shut it down. You will need to reconnect it to your phone to get the latest time. Thanks!

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Would vote for this as something to add for future models, not a big deal with the epic battery life but could see a situation when out camping or something where this could be an annoyance :laughing:. Say your phones is dead and you need to restart the pebble ect ect.

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Hi folks

I may be mistaking, but I think that all watches OGs and new ones are implemented with RTC on SoC. Than keeping correct time until the battery goes all bunkers is a thing of firmware implementation, I recon.

Would love to have the option to manually setup time if they not connected to phone and battery goes flat anyway.

@eric some thoughts on this matter ?

My personal option is that Pebble represents 21st century Casio watches. And they first and foremost watch so been able to set time manually should be given.

Cheers

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No, there is no RTC on P2D/PT2/PR2.

Re option to set time on the watch. Totally agree! We’d welcome a PR to PebbleOS that would add this functionality!

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I appreciate the responses. I started thinking I may be old, wanting my watch to keep time, LOL. I mean I am definitely old.

Time marches on, friends.

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That is a very odd decision, not to have an RTC on a device that is very much watch shaped. Was this a deliberate choice? Seems more like an oversight.

Given that, there definitely should[TM] be an option to set the current time without the requirement for a functioning phone.

An obvious choice would be a GPS/Galileo receiver, of course, but I am aware that that comes with space and energy constraints.

How about old style “radio controlled“ watches that get their time from terrestrial time signals. Is that still a thing?

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yes, definitely an oversight! We missed it in the original P2D design and that oversight was carried over to the Sifli-based design as well.

we’d appreciate a PR for this if anyone wants to contribute it!

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