Old Common, Day to Day Technology. Waht do you hang onto?

[bunyip]

I am familiar with the atomic clock and how much it would cost (a tad more than a Rolex watch) but there is a phone app called the atomic clock which 'may' use one of the worlds atomic clocks as a reference, or it could be a typo for an Atmos clock.
I googled atomic clock to see if someone has a model called that but came up with nothing, I am merely curious now as to what it is.
Given there is a quartz sundial anything is possible.
Our clocks run on 50Hz so it has to be straightened out (DC) then regenerated to 60Hz to make a clock work properly, with a PLL it is possibly more accurate that way as there will be no variations, I suspect all clocks now work that way.

 

[k0ua]

By the way, I use a software utility called Dimension 4 from thinking man software as a Network Time protocol on my computers. That will typically get you withing one tenth of a second and as it runs in the background as a windows service it will always keep your PC on time.

You can always check your time on any pc by going to the URL time.is It is also easy to remember.

Of course you can manually set clocks by manually synchronizing them with Radio station WWV on 2.5, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 Mhz. And many more stations around the world if you cannot hear ours. You Canuck's can use CHU Canada on Frequency 3.33 MHz, 7.85 MHz, 14.67 MHz. Of course those frequency's go world wide also. Or at least we hear them well down here. Not only are these stations time standards, but they are also frequency standards as well. All are derived from out atomic clocks in Boulder Colorado.

 

[k0ua]

I am familiar with the atomic clock and how much it would cost (a tad more than a Rolex watch) but there is a phone app called the atomic clock which 'may' use one of the worlds atomic clocks as a reference, or it could be a typo for an Atmos clock.
I googled atomic clock to see if someone has a model called that but came up with nothing, I am merely curious now as to what it is.
Given there is a quartz sundial anything is possible.

Also keep in mind that the time on your cellphone is very accurate, either derived from GPS timekeeping or other NIST national bureau of standards atomic clocks. There are layers or as they say "Stratum" of timekeeping, but they all point back to the atomic clocks.

 

[k0ua]

If you don't have your own receiver and want to know what it sounds like :

 

[bunyip]

At work, system is rubbish, no audio and can't play video, next they will expect us to work.
Will check it out later today or Monday.

 

[goeduck]

If you don't have your own receiver and want to know what it sounds like :

That is pretty cool :thumbsup:

 

[2LaneCruzer]

If you don't have your own receiver and want to know what it sounds like :

I have no idea what I just watched.

 

[jmc]

I have no idea what I just watched.

A hijacking.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

A hijacking.

OK! That clears it up!

 

[jmc]

OK! That clears it up!

Sorry. A thread about willfully using outdated products that then morphs into nanosecond clock technology is a thread hijack.