[time-nuts] Frequency deviations in Europe affect clocks

Attila Kinali attila at kinali.ch
Wed Mar 7 19:22:23 EST 2018


On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 22:01:25 +0100
Pete Stephenson <pete at heypete.com> wrote:

> Fortunately the Swiss rail system doesn't, as far as I know, use powerline 
> frequency for timekeeping, even at remote stations, so all the railway 
> clocks are still running properly. 

They used to have a central HBG receiver at all train stations,
with a few exceptions where reception was bad (there, they got a
special permission to use DCF77 instead). I have no idea what
they use these days for synchronization.

			Attila Kinali

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