Re: CLKADJ?


"John H Meyers" <jhmeyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:03:17 -0500:


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NIST even publishes a log of all transmission outages,
thus explaining the recent date when my own clocks
could not get signals.

http://tf.nist.gov/stations/wwvb.htm


This is great, that you even knew about it! ;-)

Signals should come from the utility companies via the AC.
The user could purchase a repeater unit
that they could just plug in the wall.
Then all appliances in the house could be synchronized.

Couldn't all appliances using AC power get their own signals?


True, but I guess I figured that we need something for the wristwatches and
vehicle clocks, etc.

What about things powered from generators, or from car inverters?

Guess they have to rely on radio waves.

There seem to be AC clocks already on the market which use
the already-existing long-wave radio signals (universally available
in USA, except in shielded or electrically noisy locations,
or where receiver designs vary in sensitivity or performance).

Curious, I haven't seen any yet, or at least I haven't noticed them.

That would be delightful, especially when recovering from power outages

My clocks are never affected by power outages (they run on batteries,
including older AC clock-radios with "battery backup")

Ach, not acceptable. Some of mine have baterries too, but they keep terrible
time under battery power, and the battery is always dead when you need it
most. I don't want to keep going around the house testing batteries.

My answering machine gets the date and time from the phone company;
it's provided by Caller-ID on every new incoming call.
My local phone company nonetheless once managed to set its own system
20 minutes off for an entire month -- so are you sure that you
want to leave it to independent local power companies
(in some places run by local city governments!)
to automatically control your clocks (and all your home systems)? ;-)

The phone is not practical to read, and they are destined to obsolesence. If
the signal came from a power company, it would have to be a signal from a
single source available to all. It would have to be regulated by a trusted
timekeeper, for instance not a TV station!

Many VCRs (and presumably DVRs) have an "auto set up"
which finds a TV station supplying calendar and time info
(Public Broadcasting System stations generally do this in USA).


Ooops... a TV station. I don;t know why TV stations cannot tell time.
Although my VCR is not doing too badly.

If my microwave oven's clock forgets the time, it has no bearing
on the functioning of the appliance -- it even serves as a reliable
indicator of when the power outage actually occurred
(since the clock then acts like a stopwatch,
starting again from 0:00 when power comes back on :)

I'd rather have the correct time when the power came back!

and dealing with DST (which they should do away with)

If we start by doing away with all that limits the functioning
of our entire consciousness in all its aspects (mental,
emotional, neurological, spiritual), that one accomplishment
will filter down into everything else done by humanity,
and that's to what my organization devotes all its energy,
although I still waste some of my own attention on calculators.


Maybe I need a large dose of that....been in the box way too long!

Scott Chapin


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