On 12 Nov 2003 at 11:19, M wrote: > > BTW can anyone in Europe let me know of a way of getting an accurate time > > signal? I do own a shortwave radio so I can receive HF signals, but not > > very longwave ones. > > > A way to keep a reasonable check is to use a PC with the time synchronised > from a server. For what it's worth, on Windows XP, there's a reasonably quiet feature (I never saw it mentioned, at least) to auto-synchronise the clock when connected to the Internet, every week or so. You can force this to do it when you ask it to; double-click on the clock and go to "Internet Time". This doesn't, IIRC, exist as standard in previous Windows OSes. For other machines, try googling; there's plenty of usable freeware programs out there; sadly, I can't remember the one I used last year, but there were two or three good ones. An online one, which means accurate to a couple of seconds allowing for lag, is at http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/. But I digress. > I do not know of a reliable radio source, even if one used the longwave > transmissions they do not announce the time. Mobile phone and the speaking clock? It gets round the "don't want to look at a screen" problem, certainly. <g> There are a few transmitters which broadcast time signals - one at Rugby, I think, and one in Germany - but I'm not sure how these are encoded/signalled, and they may be impractical to use. You could always just buy one of those self-calibrating radio watches, of course :-) -- -Andrew Gray (another lurker; south Edinburgh, UK) andrew@generalist.org.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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