> Or is there some simpler method to do this?

For lowest power I use a clock module as an interrupt source

http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/joecolquitt/lowpower.html

Typically I'll see 70-80nA consumption for PIC + clock

Accuracy is a few ppm
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