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Sadly, it won't happen because WWV connectivity has been superseded by NTP, Bluetooth syncing, and GPS-based smartwatches. It almost stopped being a possibility
by LeifCarrotson 5y ago
Sadly, it won't happen because WWV connectivity has been superseded by NTP, Bluetooth syncing, and GPS-based smartwatches. It almost stopped being a possibility when Trump tried to defund some of the NIST, but fortunately that did not come to pass.
My Garmin watch syncs to GPS satellites every time I start an activity. My cell phone (which many of my friends and family use as a replacement for a watch) syncs to the cell towers. Even appliances now are operated by microcontrollers with crystal oscillators having a frequency tolerance on the order of 20ppm: their clocks have little drift. Mine are not 'smart appliances', but those are becoming pervasive, and they, too, sync via NTP.
Ultimately, though, all those NTP and GPS clocks have their master at the NIST in Boulder, Colorado - the same clock that WWV, broadcasting from Fort Collins, 50 miles north, synchronizes against.