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From: todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: NBS time broadcast
Message-ID: <1989Aug1.163757.23050@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Date: 1 Aug 89 16:37:57 GMT
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erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons) writes:
~It calls the Naval observatory in Washington D.C.
~and (compensating for time zone differances) sets the internal clock. I
~use it once a month via a cron time implemented command at a cost of
~about .87 a month (off peak rates). 

Who's your telephone carrier?  It costs me .16 at night and .32 during
the dayon ATT.  It only takes a couple seconds of connect to do the actual
clock setting.  

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