[time-nuts] purpose of time of day display units

[Tim Shoppa]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/for-public-clocks-a-time-warp/2011/10/25/gIQAXOZ5jM_story.html

"If the clocks are right — on churches and in classrooms, on stores and in
bars — they tell us that things are in order. They tell us that people
are paying attention. If a clock is wrong, maybe everything else is,
too."


On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 1:31 AM, Ruslan Nabioullin <rnabioullin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi, looking at pictures of various time metrology equipment setups for
> best practices and inspiration, I have commonly seen time of day display
> unit(s) installed in racks containing processing or time transfer
> equipment, e.g., http://www.xyht.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Powers_
> Master_Clock.jpg. All that these units do is merely display the time of
> day and sometimes the date, typically by means of seven segment LED
> displays, of the time code inputted to them (typically IRIG-B, I'm
> guessing).  Any ideas why such a unit is necessary when one can simply look
> at the time displayed by timing receivers and time code generators (and
> even some standards), and the interface of some fusor, defined in this
> context as a system which performs timing data fusion (by implementing a
> paper clock or a more primitive algorithm) and timekeeping, either by means
> of a direct shell, or via something like NTP?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ruslan
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