Time accuracy of Fitbit watches

[JNavas]

I'm a Pebble app developer, and now that Fitbit has borged Pebble,

I'd like to find out if Fitbit is a suitable replacement app platform.

My principal Pebble app is a sailboat racing timer.

It needs to the second accuracy.

Unfortunately, Pebble did not take accuracy seriously, 

and I learned the hard way that watch time would often be off

by several seconds, greatly reducing the usefulness of my app.

Can I expect better accuracy from the new Fitbit Ionic watch?

Thank you,

John

[JonFitbit · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

Great question.

We think you'll be perfectly happy with the timing accuracy of the device. When the onboard GPS gets a fix, the system clock time will be updated based upon the GPS timestamp.

Thanks,

Jon

[JNavas]

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@JonFitbit wrote:

We think you'll be perfectly happy with the timing accuracy of the device. When the onboard GPS gets a fix, the system clock time will be updated based upon the GPS timestamp.

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Thank you. That sounds ideal.