Your auto synchronizing atomic time tech...enjoy it while you can!

DIGGER27

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If the govt budget passes as is you better learn how to adjust them yourselves because they won't do it automatically for you anymore.
The budget is being cut from all NIST stations, guess we need the money for other more important things.

Several million watches, over 50 million other clocks, weather stations, appliances, cameras and a bunch of industrial tech like irrigation controllers....many, many millions of products in our homes and industries are controlled and synced using an internal receiver linked to the signal sent out from station WWVB and if this station shuts down it's game over man...you will have to look elsewhere for your accurate timekeeping duties.

What is WWVB...only the oldest radio station in the country and it gives us much more information than just what time it is with its super accurate 60 kHz carrier wave...time so accurate you might not believe it.
https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/radio-stations/wwvb

Sure we can get some pretty accurate time from GPS and maybe other ways but it won't be as crazy accurate as we have in the signal from this station and most of that auto time sync tech that has been made for years and years only has one receiver built into them and they are all tuned to just one signal...the one coming from WWVB.
If that station is turned off you better hope you have a manual adjustment ability built in to your devices as a backup.


Here is some more info, in there is a link to a White House Petition you can sign to get the government to reconsider this penny wise, pound foolish decision.
https://swling.com/blog/2018/08/syn...final-tock-time-may-no-longer-be-synchronous/
 

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There are other stations, other bands that can do this but this one is the most accurate and oldest one.
The government wastes so much money, you would think they could find a little to keep these stations up and running because they mean so much to so many.
 
We used to know what time to get up in the morning from the rooster...We use to know what time it was to come inside in the evening by Momma ringing the dinner bell....Although the Good Humor Mans cart jingle was pretty accurate to let a guy know it was sometime in the afternoon and probably should get pedaling down to baseball practice....Church bells sort of kept a guy on track, to know about when a fellow has to be somewhere!...Its like What? Again? :laughing:

Time is a Human invention intended for Community Crowd Control.....'Punching a Clock' is very descriptive...
 
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