atomic clock time Why did my atomic clock not reset the new daylight-savings time?
March 11, 2007
Update: NIST wrote back to me. Apparently they did not update that particular channel on that particular server. This, however, has nothing to do with why my clock did not update.
I suffer from having an older, dumber (cheaper) clock that doesn't look at the DST code at all. DST is programmed in the clock to change on the 1st Sunday in April. That's it.
So, for the next 3 weeks, I have to set my clock to the "Atlantic" time zone (just east of "Eastern"). Might be time for a new clock...
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My clock also did not set itself properly, even after cycling power to force it to reset.
This morning (3/12/07) I decided to check with NIST at http://www.bldrdoc.gov/doc-tour/atomic_clock.html to see if it was me or them. From this site, you can follow the link to get the current time code at http://132.163.4.101:14/.
The first page details what all of those funky codes are. The important code here is the DST code.
Here's what the time code was this morning:
54171 07-03-12 13:25:52 71 0 0 216.4 UTC(NIST)
Note that the "71" means that there are still 20 days until DST. They didn't correct their signal! I e-mailed them about this and did not get an answer.
Here's the code right now as I write this:
54171 07-03-12 18:19:33 50 0 0 619.6 UTC(NIST)
Note that the "71" has now changed to "50" meaning that we are now on DST.
What this all means is that NIST didn't correct their signal until sometime between 9:30am & 2:00pm EST.
What I can't understand is the folks here who claim their clocks did update.
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why did my atomic clock not reset to daylight time?
because DST started earlier this year than usual. you can manually change it or download a patch that will do it for you.
I can screw with electronics too, though I can’t make metal stick to me. I bought a five dollar watch about a month ago, my sister did too. We both set ours to the US Atomic clock time. Mine is now 9 minutes ahead, hers is the normal time. Also, my doctor has told me I have a really rare magnetic field
I can screw with electronics too, though I can’t make metal stick to me. I bought a five dollar watch about a month ago, my sister did too. We both set ours to the US Atomic clock time. Mine is now 9 minutes ahead, hers is the normal time. Also, my doctor has told me I have a really rare magnetic field
After three weeks, my new watch was a little less than one second fast today relative to atomic clock time maintained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. That's pretty dang good.
In the USA, time was kept by the communities, prior to the arrival of the trains coming to town. So it was conceivable Smallville's time was different than Largeville's time, even if there was only 20 kilometers between them.
The transcontinental trains had to have a schedule they could keep that would tell people everywhere what time the train would arrive, not only in the towns & villages where people were picked up, but also what time the train would arrive at a particular destination.
And so for that reason, early USA was divided into 4 time zones where all the the times were standardized. I do believe too that the sun rise determines much of what zone you're in. On the east coast, the sun shines first, so they are 3 hours ahead of the Pacific Time Zone on the west coast.
You might want to check the link below for further info on GMT > Greenwich Mean Time.
I can screw with electronics too, though I can’t make metal stick to me. I bought a five dollar watch about a month ago, my sister did too. We both set ours to the US Atomic clock time. Mine is now 9 minutes ahead, hers is the normal time. Also, my doctor has told me I have a really rare magnetic field
The false premise here is that because all devices used to measure time involve motion, means that time does not exist.
Another false premise is that if we create it then it does not exist. In fact, our creation of an idea proves its existence. Language is all created, and every word that we use does exist. You are able to understand what I am saying because these words have meaning that we both mutually understand. The existence of the word, and the mutual understanding of its meaning proves the existence of the concept. IF you can prove anything, you can prove time.
In fact, without time, there would be no motion. Motion, in the scientific sense in thought of as distance per time. For example miles per hour, meters per second.
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I can screw with electronics too, though I can’t make metal stick to me. I bought a five dollar watch about a month ago, my sister did too. We both set ours to the US Atomic clock time. Mine is now 9 minutes ahead, hers is the normal time. Also, my doctor has told me I have a really rare magnetic field
I can screw with electronics too, though I can’t make metal stick to me. I bought a five dollar watch about a month ago, my sister did too. We both set ours to the US Atomic clock time. Mine is now 9 minutes ahead, hers is the normal time. Also, my doctor has told me I have a really rare magnetic field
The Atomic Clock and the Ntp Time Server
*radical subject change*
After three weeks, my new watch was a little less than one second fast today relative to atomic clock time maintained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. That's pretty dang good.
I reset it.
You can set your own watch here.
I have one but it has yet to do what it is supposed to regarding daylight savings time. Stupid piece of crap.
In the USA, time was kept by the communities, prior to the arrival of the trains coming to town. So it was conceivable Smallville's time was different than Largeville's time, even if there was only 20 kilometers between them.
The transcontinental trains had to have a schedule they could keep that would tell people everywhere what time the train would arrive, not only in the towns & villages where people were picked up, but also what time the train would arrive at a particular destination.
And so for that reason, early USA was divided into 4 time zones where all the the times were standardized. I do believe too that the sun rise determines much of what zone you're in. On the east coast, the sun shines first, so they are 3 hours ahead of the Pacific Time Zone on the west coast.
You might want to check the link below for further info on GMT > Greenwich Mean Time.
I can screw with electronics too, though I can’t make metal stick to me. I bought a five dollar watch about a month ago, my sister did too. We both set ours to the US Atomic clock time. Mine is now 9 minutes ahead, hers is the normal time. Also, my doctor has told me I have a really rare magnetic field
RT Did you know? A second is officially defined as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a cesium-133 atom in an atomic clock.
The false premise here is that because all devices used to measure time involve motion, means that time does not exist.
Another false premise is that if we create it then it does not exist. In fact, our creation of an idea proves its existence. Language is all created, and every word that we use does exist. You are able to understand what I am saying because these words have meaning that we both mutually understand. The existence of the word, and the mutual understanding of its meaning proves the existence of the concept. IF you can prove anything, you can prove time.
In fact, without time, there would be no motion. Motion, in the scientific sense in thought of as distance per time. For example miles per hour, meters per second.