Broadcasting Atomic Clocks (was Re: hayes chronograph)

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Thu Jul 26 17:55:01 2001

>parts of the US the VCR would select a reference that was in a different
>timezone than the user. This would result in the clock being off by an
>hour (or for some folks in Arizona, off by an hour for part of the year).

Our $69 Toshiba has this problem with our cable system, ie if it tracks
WTBS instead of KCAL or some other local station we have to play with
setting it manually to a local station. The simple solution would be for
ALL stations to transmit GMT and locally each person would set the offset,
but that may have some daylight savings time glitches.

I am a bit behind in reading my email, but I am surprized nobody is talking
about internet time servers, which I have been using for about 4 years.
Received on Thu Jul 26 2001 - 17:55:01 BST