patchclock
Numerator-only mirror

This mirrors only statements manufacturers have published. Absence here is not evidence of non-compliance - a product may be exempt (manufactured before 4 March 2026), not covered by the Rules, or our search may have missed its statement.

patchclock is not a safety indicator for devices manufactured before 4 March 2026: those products are permanently exempt from the publication duty this register mirrors, and most AU shelf stock in 2026 predates that cutoff.

About patchclock

From 4 March 2026, the Cyber Security (Security Standards for Smart Devices) Rules 2025 require manufacturers of relevant connectable products sold in Australia to publish a defined security-support period for each product: a minimum length of time, expressed as an end date or a duration, for which security updates will be provided. patchclock mirrors those published statements in one searchable place, with the manufacturer's own wording preserved exactly, a link back to the source, and the date we captured it.

What this is not

patchclock is not a compliance census. It does not track which manufacturers have or have not published a statement, does not rank or score products, and does not claim that any manufacturer is or is not meeting its legal obligations. A product's absence from this register is not evidence of anything: the manufacturer may not yet have been added to our source list, the statement may be published somewhere we have not found, the product may be exempt because it was manufactured before 4 March 2026, or it may simply not be a "relevant connectable product" under the Rules - a legal question this project does not attempt to answer.

How figures are recorded

Every support-end figure in the register is copied verbatim from the manufacturer's own published statement - an absolute date such as "10 July 2028", or a duration such as "5 years from first supply" - exactly as published. Nothing is computed, shortened, or converted into a different format. Where a statement's support period is anchored to something other than Australian availability (for example, a US store release date), that anchor is shown alongside the figure rather than an inferred Australian date.

Sparse by design, for now

This is an early, curated register covering a bounded set of major brands, built from statements captured directly from each manufacturer's own published page or document. It will grow slowly and deliberately rather than attempt a comprehensive market census. A gap in the register at this stage reflects the register's youth, not a manufacturer's conduct.

Data and reuse

The dataset, the archived source snapshots, and the extraction code behind this register are intended to be openly reusable. Every row links back to the manufacturer's own statement so it can be checked against the original.