[time-nuts] Where do people get the time?

2022-01-09 Thread Thomas D. Erb
in the 1930's you could call the local telephone operator - who would look at the wall clock at say the "electric time is" . meaning the time the generator synchronous wall clock read. Thomas D. Erb p:508-359-4396 f:508-359-4482 a:97 West Street, Medfield, MA 02052

[time-nuts] Where do people get the time?

2021-12-27 Thread Thomas D. Erb
years ago I was out a large clock installation in NYC - written on the wall was a note - before noon tune to a specific shortwave frequency to listen to the noon type signal. Western Union used to distribute time over their telegraph network for a small fee - in connection with the Self

[time-nuts] Where do people get the time?

2021-12-25 Thread Hal Murray
> The ES-192U/194U uses the AC line-frequency as a time reference If you have one of those and you just plugged it in or want to check it, where do you get the time? How good are cell phones? I remember comments about them being way off. But that was a long time ago. If I was doing it now,