Patent ID: 8072845

Claim:
An electric wave clock comprising: an error time calculating section which calculates an error time to be caused in timing data based on a time difference from a time point of a last correction of the timing data to a present time, when a time becomes a set time determined in advance, or a predetermined operation input is performed and a time correction is required; a reception section which receives an electric wave and which demodulates the received electric wave to obtain a time code; a control section which obtains received data from the reception section in a period obtained by adding the error time and a partial period which is supposed to include partial data in a specific range of the time code in a transmission period of one frame of the time code; a comparison section which makes a comparison between the received data obtained in the period obtained by adding the error time and the partial period and the partial data in the specific range which is supposed to be received in the partial period; a judgment section which judges in which timing in the period obtained by adding the error time and the partial period the partial data has been received by the comparison of the comparison section; a timer section which times a time; and a data correction section which corrects the timing data of the timer section based on the timing judged by the judgment section.