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From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon)
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Subject: Re: Master Clocks Around the World
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jeh@simpact.com writes:

> the local telco (Pacific*Bell) clock seems to be synched very well to
> WWV (as received via shortwave).  Right to the tick, as far as I can
> determine!  Do they run a receiver on WWV and automatically adjust

I am told that is what they do by my Pac*Bell friends. On the other
hand, there is GTE who allowed their Los Gatos time signal to get
several minutes off before a disgruntled subscriber finally called in
to complain!

Oh, well, I'm sure GTE would normally be happy if their time signal
indicated the correct century.


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