Electronic timepiece
AssigneeSeiko Instruments Inc.
InventorKenji Ogasawara
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Abstract
An electronic timepiece, to display always accurate current local time by city without any change-over to and from the summer time. In an electronic timepiece, to adjust time automatically at change-over to and from the summer time, comprising a city's summer time date memory means 111 for memorizing the starting, the ending and etc. date value by city, a summer time period comparing means 107 for judging if in the summer time through comparing the time calculated by city's current time calculating means 106 with the summer time value memorized in the city's summer time date memory means 111, a time adjusting means 108 for adjusting time when judged by the summer time period comparing means 107 that it is in the summer time, and a displaying means 109 for displaying time.
Claims5
An electronic timepiece comprising:
- a dividing circuit for dividing a standard signal output from an oscillating circuit, time counting means for counting time value, with the output signal from the oscillating circuit, date counting means for counting the date with the output signal from the time counting means, city selecting means for selecting a city, city designating means for displaying the selected city, city's current time calculating means for calculating the local time at the city selected by the city selecting means with the output signal from the time counting means and the output signal from the date counting means, city's summer time date memory means for memorizing such a value as the starting and the ending date of the summer time by city, summer time comparing means for judging if it is in the summer time period through comparing the time counted by the city's time calculating means with the summer time value memorized in the city's summer time date memory means, time adjusting means for adjusting the time in case it is judged by the summer time comparing means that it is in the summer time, and displaying means for displaying the adjusted time above.
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