Broadcasting Atomic Clocks (was Re: hayes chronograph)

--- Iggy Drougge <optimus(a)canit.se> wrote: Not as nice as that... I have one. It's an add-on for a car with internal and external temp sensors. I picked it up when I was in Munich last year and didn't realize that you _can't_ set the time manually. I was figuring that it'd be fun to have a thermometer, and the fact that we don't have the same clock transmitter in the States wouldn't be a problem. It is. I have a car thermometer that knows what time it is in Germany. come There is a transmitter in Colorado, but I am not aware of any hobby projects to take advantage of it. They did start building VCRs that could set themselves off of a time signal broadcast over PBS stations, but I think I heard something about that being a failed program and being discontinued at some point. When I heard about it, it suggested to me that if the atomic clock radio signal had good propgation characteristics, they would have used that instead of a time signal from a TV station, but perhaps it's more an issue of Daylight Savings Time. -ethan Suggest you check out http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4, It will set the time of your computer to any of a number of accurate sources, US Navel Observatory, etc. When I got mine a few years ago, it was a free download.

Charlie Fox