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From: morris@utah-cs.UUCP (Richard Morris)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: WWV
Message-ID: <2004@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 21:17:54 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 13 21:17:54 1983
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At first reading I thought WWV stood for World War V.  Soooooo glad it
hasn't come to that.

Relentless!

Heathkit sells a clock kit which monitors the WWV broadcast and
sets it's time to within 10 milliseconds of Coordinated Universal
Time (or any other time zone you may happen to program into it). During
the times which the clock cannot receive WWV do to interference there
is an internal clock which keeps time.  The clock has an indicator which
tells if the clock is synchronized to WWV.

There is also an RS-232C serial port option which runs at up to 9600 baud,
with which a computer can get the time from this miraculous little clock.
I think that those people whose machines have problems with "What time/day
it is", should get one of these clocks.

In kit form this clock costs about $250.00, with the serial port option
about $300.00.  If you buy the clock assembled it costs around $389.00.

Richard Morris
utah-cs!morris