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Telephone Time-of-Day Service
- wglb 8y agoCool. It receives about 2,000 calls per day. Who knew? Perhaps my favorite NIST publication has a section titled 1A Dating of Events in the Vicinity of Leap Seconds at https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/1788.pdf https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/1788.pdf
- classichasclass 8y agoI bet those call-ins are automated systems in this day and age that have no network access or haven't otherwise been updated. But it still works, right?
- joezydeco 8y agoJust an FYI that the funds for the NIST time service (including radio stations WWV and WWVH and their associated data streams) are possibly in jepoardy for the 2019 Federal budget: http://www.arrl.org/news/nist-fy-2019-budget-would-eliminate-wwv-and-wwvh http://www.arrl.org/news/nist-fy-2019-budget-would-eliminate...