[time-nuts] The ultraAtomic clock for home

Jim Harman j99harman at gmail.com
Wed Apr 5 09:00:05 EDT 2017


On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Bob kb8tq <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:

> I’m still a bit unclear on how many people will set up a wall of clocks
> running
> on a dozen or so time zones. Obviously the people making clocks are
> very much in favor of doing that
>

It's probably for flashy newsrooms, where they like to have clocks with the
time in London, Moscow, Tokyo, etc. It's nice to have all the second hands
jumping simultaneously!

The challenge there is to keep the clocks correct for summer time, which
changes on different dates in Europe and of course in the other direction
in the Southern Hemisphere.


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--Jim Harman


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