RE: Does anyone really know what time it is?

["Hakim Madjid" <HMadjid@mindspring.com>]

Dan Billings writes:

>WBLM was giving the wrong time this morning.  Their
>studio clock was apparently 3 minutes fast.  I know
>it's not a huge deal but one of the basics of morning
>radio is time.  I noticed a similar problem last year.


I am puzzled these days if a radio station is off on the correct time.
There are so many ways these days to have your time directly on the ball.
I don't know maybe issue a Casio Wave Ceptor wirstwatch [it receives WWVB]
to a couple of the on - air people or something.

As has been pointed out on this thread it's really trivial to get the corect
time these days, there's a surfit of SNTP servers on the net, that one can
syncronize a PC clock to, plenty of cheap desk clocks, wall clocks, and
wristwatches that synch to WWVB. All sorts of other things can be tried,
also.

Once you have the correct time by any of these methods, one should then hack
if possible all studio / station clocks to the correct time.


73, de Hakim (N1ZFF)