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It's sad when any sort of ritual comes to an end, but I mean... with cell phones sync'd to the tower's time, and temp controlled time crystals (like in the appl
by bonestamp2 3y ago
It's sad when any sort of ritual comes to an end, but I mean... with cell phones sync'd to the tower's time, and temp controlled time crystals (like in the apple watch), are we technically missing anything without this?
- rerdavies 3y agocontinuity. It's an utterly futile anachronism. But it will still be dearly missed. Given that the CBC had dedicated landlines to the NRC time labs, the obviously solution would have been to get the NRC to send a pips signal for 12:59:51 (9 seconds earlier).
- kalleboo 3y agoThe article says the delay is "up to" nine seconds, a wording which sounds to me like it's not a fixed delay.
- maratc 3y agoThe delay is probably between 0 and 9 seconds, and probably differs between people who are listening at the same time. It does not seem like there is an obvious solution to this.
- Vogtinator 3y ago> with cell phones sync'd to the tower's time, and temp controlled time crystals (like in the apple watch) The best we have is actually GPS time, accurate to ~100ns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Accuracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Accu...).
- Abekkus 3y agoI'm wondering if weather patterns can drop that accuracy back to mere microseconds. Just in case, you can rely on wired terrestrial signals for similar precision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol
- bonestamp2 3y agoSure, but my point is that basically everyone has at least a basic cell phone (and I assume the cell towers are using GPS to sync their time).
- chx 3y ago> are we technically missing anything without this The title is utterly misleading because the official time signal is CHU and that is still alive and well. That signal is important to all sorts of things, this one was not. (Small note: perhaps an international agreement to keep WWV / WWVB / WWVH alive would serve us better.)
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoWhat if you don't have a cell phone? Boom, checkmate. I'm half joking, there's a percentage of people that doesn't have a smartphone, anything internet connected, who just have analog clocks or watches and who (I presume) would or could use this signal to sync things.
- __s 3y agoThis is my grandfather in northern ontario. Has TV & landline, but no cell phone, no computer, no internet. No interest to start at 80
- dn3500 3y agoWhere I live, in Mexico, cell tower time is useless. I sync my phone manually to my laptop every few days. I wish I had some way to sync the phone to GPS automatically. There is probably an app for that.