A Trillion Year Clock. (addons: bigbang, current time, and eeprom backup, are included)

Clock Loop

I created a clock that runs to 2,147,483,647 Trillion years, at which point it will roll over to 0. (At least in software)
If you need something longer, then you need to write it down on a piece of paper.

Connect putty to your propeller's p30/p31 debug output. :P

https://hackaday.io/project/162734-a-trillion-year-clock

ADDON INCLUDED wrote:

eerpom backup

NOTE: THIS CLOCK USES THIS FORMAT: 
TrilionYear.BillionYear.MillionYear.Millennium.Century.Decade.Year.Day.Hour.Minute.Second

The numbers completely populated before it rolls over would look like this:  
2,147,483,647 Trillion Years
999 Billion Years
999 Million Years
999 Millennium
9 Centuries
9 Decades
9 Years
364 Days
23 Hours
59 Minutes
59 Seconds
IF 1 second is added to this, all numbers (should)become 0.

David Betz

Clock Loop wrote: »

I created a clock that runs to 2,147,483,647 Trillion years, at which point it will roll over to 0. (At least in software)
If you need something longer, then you need to write it down on a piece of paper.

Connect putty to your propeller's p30/p31 debug output. :P

Have you tested it to verify that it works? What time machine did you use?

Clock Loop

David Betz wrote: »

Have you tested it to verify that it works? What time machine did you use?

Thats a valid point.
The best I can do is force the propeller to run the counter as fast as it can.
And my code isn't very efficient, so it will still take a time machine to test, with the non-optimized code I posted.

Hmm, thats a legit reason to start work on the time machine, to test the trillion year clock...

So many ways to go.. so little.... time...

Clock Loop

ADDON wrote:

BIG BANG MODULE and UPDATED TIME

Ok, I think I have the proper time it should be set to.

Planck wrote:

In 2015, the Planck Collaboration estimated the age of the universe to be 13.813±0.038 billion years,
slightly higher but within the uncertainties of the earlier number derived from the WMAP data.
By combining the Planck data with external data, the best combined estimate of the age of the universe is:
(13.799±0.021)×10^9 years old.

13,799,792,018.342.15.51.42 years old.

13,799,000,000 = (13.799±0.021)×10^9
790,000 = Fudge number. Speed of light is 299,792,458, so i stole from its middle.
2018 = Our year.

Countdown timer since beginning of 2018
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?

342 days
15 hours
51 minutes
42 seconds
old.

Now none of us can use the excuse our clocks are wrong.

DAT

  uSeconds              long    42
  uMinute               long    51
  uHour                 long    15
  uDays                 long    342
  uYears                long    8
  uDecade               long    1
  uCentury              long    0
  uMillennium           long    792
  uMillionYears         long    799
  uBillionYears         long    13,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
  uTrillionYears        long    0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0

  Seconds               long    42
  Minute                long    51
  Hour                  long    15
  Days                  long    342
  Years                 long    8
  Decade                long    1 
  Century               long    0
  Millennium            long    792
  MillionYears          long    799
  BillionYears          long    13,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
  TrillionYears         long    0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
 

TO THE FUTURE!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5nF2ij0cY8

Mark_T

Just some questions, does the clock account for the earths slowing spin and the fact a year will become meaningless once the sun becomes a red giant?

You might want to check the best known limits on the lifetime of the proton too, thinking about it

Clock Loop

Mark_T wrote: »

Just some questions, does the clock account for the earths slowing spin and the fact a year will become meaningless once the sun becomes a red giant?

You might want to check the best known limits on the lifetime of the proton too, thinking about it

All clocks need to be adjusted once in a while, its accuracy could improve with atomic sources, and better math.

The clock should be modified to adjust for proton lifetime limits, when that is of concern, it would be advisable to have a better clock technology and storage medium developed.

Since time is relative, in this case, it relates to the humans home planet and birth epoch.

Genetix

Clock Loop,

You do understand that over that long of a time span that any error in your timing will be greatly multiplied.

Clock Loop

Hmm,.

When traveling in a car, eventually you need to stop and take a break.

So I would advise the same for long time traveling.

Take a break, get out of the DeLorean, and make sure to adjust clocks accordingly.
Never navigate by clock alone, use your eyes, if it looks off, don't stop in that town... era..

OH, and never pickup hitchhikers, ESPECIALLY NOT ONE THAT LOOKS LIKE YOU.

You wouldn't drive off a cliff even if the road map said.... Your eyes would say, NO.

Well don't go so far (in any direction) that you drive off your "island of stability". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability
Since its never been done before, I plant a flag on the "Island Of Stability", and declare it the 51st state of the United States of America.
As such, protected by all such laws and rules granted to member states within, and without.
...



But do, stop and let the kids see the dinosaurs, etc...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIqtHKoSm68

AJL

Clock Loop wrote: »

Well don't go so far (in any direction) that you drive off your "island of stability". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability
Since its never been done before, I plant a flag on the "Island Of Stability", and declare it the 51st state of the United States of America.

But it has been done before, I just didn't have my smartphone with me to take a photo of it. So, like a large chunk of Antarctica, it is a protectorate of Australia!

Clock Loop wrote: »

As such, protected by all such laws and rules granted to member states within, and without.

Clock Loop

Last I checked, our fleet wasn't taking over those areas... Its just not patrolled beyond that so, to keep pirate activity down we sail those areas...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxuRBo1HorE

tomcrawford

http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/132550/five-billion-names#latest

Clock Loop

Nice project tom, did your project ever find the "name" everyone uses today?

" i "

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FEsD0OpYH0

Clock Loop

I created this clock because I couldn't find a simple clock that integrated a fairly standard time I am used to with the. 24Hour/365Days but also include the current estimated age of the universe.
Gotta pick something...
All that jive about staying current with the earth spin etc.. Its all relative.
If you wake up the sun is at high noon, then I suggest you adjust your clocks.
The room for error in the calculation is...
13,799,000,000 = ± 21,000,000

42 MILLION YEARS is your window of error or play.
I think OUR standard of local time fits nicely in that window.
Sure we still have room to grow. 42 million years of it.

Oh, there it is again... 42.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aboZctrHfK8

SO WHAT!
Everyday, I feel the sun on my skin and feel its lovely radiation.
And I do actually love my sun. It keeps me ALIVE!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQBkdJwD7Xc

I updated the code to properly calculate the uptime.
I also put the timer in its own cog, and reduce its duty to timing only.

My timing is still off from spin execution cycyles.

So I measured my Repeat code and adjusted the waitcnt value till it measured 1/10th of a second.

Pub TenthCounter | tempo

  Repeat
     
    waitcnt(7_999_032 + cnt)     'wait 1/10 second                
    Trigger := 1  
    tempo += cnt - 544
    Time := tempo
    tempo := -cnt         'Read System Counter (Start)        
 

Time = 8_000_000

So the execution time of

Pub TenthCounter | tempo

  Repeat     
    waitcnt(7_999_019 + cnt)     'wait 1/10 second                
    Trigger := 1
 

Should be 8_000_000...

I have found that the program has timing hysteresis with this method, between waitcnt(7_999_019 + cnt) and (7_999_020 + cnt)
it also runs slow still.

https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/download/124678/TrillionYearClock.zip