On Nov 17, 7:34*pm, Metspitzer wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:16:42 -0600, Bill Gill
wrote:





On 11/16/2010 1:02 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
I just bought a WWVB Radio Controlled Clock. *Anyone know how much
adding the circuitry to the cost of the clock would be? *I would guess
less than 5 dollars. *Probably closer to 2 dollars.

You would think all digital clock radios would come with this built
in.

http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/radioclocks.cfm

I would like to be able to walk into a store and buy a radio controlled
clock radio. *They are available, but I haven't been able to find
one at any of the regular suspects. *For that matter there aren't
really very many wall clocks. *Most of the regular suspects have
"Atomic" wall clocks, but they have digital displays, not nice big
faces with second hands. *There are a few of them out there, but
not as many as I expected to have showing up when I first found out
about them.

Bill

The service should also broadcast the date. *This would be very handy
for reprogramming DVD recorders, TVs and answering machines that lose
time\date settings due to power outages. *It is not so much getting
the time to the exact second, it is the convenience of not having to
set the time at all.

If the low ball estimate of 9 cents for the technology is close,
everything should come with WWVB.- Hide quoted text -

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My television knows the time and date. Dunno how. And also the dvd
player/recorder. It knows about Winter and Summer time and leap years.
I wonder what else it knows.