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From: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: WWV vs. The Naval Observatory Clock -- Who's Right ?
Keywords: time standards timex
Message-ID: <279@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US>
Date: 29 Dec 90 09:26:30 GMT
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In article <63354@petro.UUCP> root@petro.UUCP (Petty System God) writes:
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>... the Naval Observatory was reporting time about 12 seconds behind WWV.
>OK, I give up, who's right ?

Most assuredly it is WWV.  Certainly propagation through the
phone network is no 12 seconds, so the Naval Observatory time
must be just plain wrong.  The WWV time over radio is absolutely
correct (some will disagree, but really, what's a few
femtoseconds among time freaks?).  The propagation delay is a
factor, but my clock ticks are 60HZ :-).
 
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Warren Tucker                     emory!n4hgf!wht or wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US
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