Correct Time Website

[LadyVol@330]

Ever since we lost the phone access (POPCORN) to the correct time :sad:, my husband has depended on the beep on radio news, or the time on the cable news stations to set our clocks. Here's the one we like the best now and it's at the top of our preference list:

http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Pacific/d/-8/java

[Tom]

How about cell phone?

[LadyVol@330]

We are actually old-fashioned enough to still have a land line in the house, and use the cell very rarely --check for messages about once a month! I notice that the time on the computer doesn't seem completely correct so I haven't bothered to trust the cell either. I guess some day we will get into this century.

[SB 405]

Land line old fashioned..really? Just about everyone I know uses both land and cell.

[emcviper]

Land line old fashioned..really? Just about everyone I know uses both land and cell.
Hmmm...I'd say 80% of my friends and acquaintances don't have a land line phone

[SB 405]

Hmmm...I'd say 80% of my friends and acquaintances don't have a land line phone

Yeah,well I'm old. So old that I remember when the entire greater Los Angeles area had one area code...213.

[emcviper]

Yeah,well I'm old.Not old, just "classic." We'd have a land line, but it just doesn't make financial sense for us.

[Mac]

You can find freeware apps that will automatically sync your computer to the "official" (atomic) time via the internet. Macs have the capability built into the OS, and I believe recent versions of Windows may also.

Cell phones are generally very accurate. If you happen to have a GPS receiver they're extremely accurate also, as the positioning capability of GPS is dependent upon precise time data.

Heck, they even make clocks and watches that sync to the official U.S. Atomic Clock in Boulder, CO. I have a Casio watch that automatically syncs to it once a day. One of my home weather stations does it also.

[gabriel]

I haven't had a landline in probably 4-5 years.

[ResQ]

If you want to roll 'world wide' then this is the place to be.

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html


check your cellphone against the navy clock and see what you get.

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/simpletime.html

[alexfarrington]

The US Naval Observatory's Master Clock can be accessed by phone at 202-762-1401. Maybe not as easy to remember as "POPCORN," but it works. Bear in mind that this will be a toll call from a landline.

[highwaybs]

verizon was 3 seconds behind

[LadyVol@330]

The US Naval Observatory's Master Clock can be accessed by phone at 202-762-1401. Maybe not as easy to remember as "POPCORN," but it works. Bear in mind that this will be a toll call from a landline.

Actually, we didn't use POPCORN, just POP, then you could add any four digits you wanted and you got the same thing, so I always dialed POP-1111. Now that was odd! That already belongs in "the good old days" category.

[Lilrecruit21]

Not old, just "classic." We'd have a land line, but it just doesn't make financial sense for us.


There was a point when my family didn't have a hardline, but that went away once the kids were born. It may not make financial sense, but I am sure the Chippies here would agree that in an emergency, it makes a whole lot of sense to have a hardline. From what I understand, and I am sure there is already a thread started on it, If an emergency call is dialed from a cell phone, it goes to one of two CHP operators...and THEN it is forwarded to local police. I would much rather have the help quickly in an emergency. Our land line is about 10 bucks a month, which is what most of you youngsters pay for your text messaging or internet options on those "berries" that you call phones! :cool:

[gabriel]

There was a point when my family didn't have a hardline, but that went away once the kids were born. It may not make financial sense, but I am sure the Chippies here would agree that in an emergency, it makes a whole lot of sense to have a hardline. From what I understand, and I am sure there is already a thread started on it, If an emergency call is dialed from a cell phone, it goes to one of two CHP operators...and THEN it is forwarded to local police. I would much rather have the help quickly in an emergency. Our land line is about 10 bucks a month, which is what most of you youngsters pay for your text messaging or internet options on those "berries" that you call phones! :cool:

You could just add your local police dept's dispatch line to your contacts, thats what I do. I also have the CHP Border Comm center.

[alexfarrington]

There was a point when my family didn't have a hardline, but that went away once the kids were born. It may not make financial sense, but I am sure the Chippies here would agree that in an emergency, it makes a whole lot of sense to have a hardline. From what I understand, and I am sure there is already a thread started on it, If an emergency call is dialed from a cell phone, it goes to one of two CHP operators...and THEN it is forwarded to local police. I would much rather have the help quickly in an emergency. Our land line is about 10 bucks a month, which is what most of you youngsters pay for your text messaging or internet options on those "berries" that you call phones! :cool:

It is my understanding that as long as there is a physical connection between your house and the phone company, a 911 call can still be completed. I don't have home phone service, and never worried about it because I have direct numbers for the Law, Fire and EMS dispatch centers in my area.

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-1-1#Inactive_telephones) states that it's an FCC requirement that land lines dial 911, even if there is no billed service set up. Anecdotal research on Google suggests that this may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction though...

[LadyVol@330]

There was a point when my family didn't have a hardline, but that went away once the kids were born. It may not make financial sense, but I am sure the Chippies here would agree that in an emergency, it makes a whole lot of sense to have a hardline. From what I understand, and I am sure there is already a thread started on it, If an emergency call is dialed from a cell phone, it goes to one of two CHP operators...and THEN it is forwarded to local police. I would much rather have the help quickly in an emergency. Our land line is about 10 bucks a month, which is what most of you youngsters pay for your text messaging or internet options on those "berries" that you call phones! :cool:

We still have the land line because we were too lazy to have everyone toss that number (we have had it since 1967), but we dropped long distance service and use the cell only for that. As for the 911 stuff, if we can't get through with that, I have a complete list of our county and surroundings of all the emergency numbers we might need when we can't reach 911. Had to use that out here on the freeway one Sunday morning. There was an overturned vehicle in the middle of all lanes further down the road on the other side, but our side was really stop and go far too early for that to be a factor. Finally we came up to the trouble, and it was some young women who had hit the center divider and a couple of others involved with hitting them. I saw some facial bleeds on one and as we drifted on by I tried to call 911. It was busy. All the "girls" were standing outside with backs to the roadway (although traffic was only crawling up to that point) and none of them appeared to be talking. I assumed 911 was busy, so I reached for my handy-dandy list and called the area police department. They started to tell me about the other crash, and I told them that no, this was another one and the CHP had not arrived yet. Before we reached the site of the overturn on the other side, a CHP unit was Code 3 on the way back to the one I had reported, and the time it took to make up that list was well worth it. I never expect to get a sassy 911 operator here, but if I ever do, I will hang up immediately and go to my emergency numbers list.

[SemperPar]

The Naval Observatory also broadcast a "Time Tick" starting at 500KC on the AM band and continues on up at 500KC intervals (1000, 1500, 2000 ect). If you have a scanner you could dial one of those up too.

[PapaBear]

Yeah,well I'm old. So old that I remember when the entire greater Los Angeles area had one area code...213.

How about I remember when the telephone numbers were preceded by two letters from a word?

MA(dison) 6 9511, TR(umbull) 5 2492, RE(public) 8 0122, UN(iversity) 8 7211, etc.


Long before AREA CODES!
:lol:

[Vinnie]

ZE(nith) 1 2000?

[SB 405]

And the San Fernando Valley was PO(pular)

[bcjack]

I can remember when my Dad's work phone was Guadalupe 3611. You had to call the Operator and have her connect you. No way to dial directly from out of town. If you were in Guadalupe, you just dial the 4 numbers to call someone else in town...

[LadyVol@330]

When I was born, we didn’t have a phone for a few years. When the lines were finally strung out to our farm in the boonies, the instrument was an old wooden box with a crank on the side and we rang up the operator with a long ring and she came on and said, “Number Please?” If we needed the time, she could tell us. We had a party line and when there was a very long ring for all, it meant a disaster, usually a prairie fire (caused by the freight train with its coal engine and sparks aplenty) or a farm tragedy of some sort. On farm #2 when I was six and we didn’t have a phone yet, my younger sister decided to give our toddler brother a drink from the fuel barrel, either tractor fuel or kerosene. Mom had to hoof it across the pasture over to the neighbors to call the doctor to come out. All went well. We still had a party line and our ring was one long and two shorts. We had to listen carefully so we didn’t answer someone else’s ring. Because the receiver cradle had one plunger button that we had to raise up to make a call, we could listen all day to everyone else’s calls. Mom even had the audacity to lay the receiver on top of the desk so she could hear outgoing calls as well! We had no TV soap operas in those days, just 15-minute radio shows and the real thing. Two neighbor women had no idea they were in competition for the attentions of our town priest! Also, when we got the Skyline prefix, we could dial calls and then people couldn’t hang up on us. If they tried and we left our phone off the hook, they wouldn’t get a dial tone, just us again. Lots of fun there for teenagers! Good thing telemarketers can’t do that. OMG, if someone made or got a LONG DISTANCE PHONE CALL! That was really an event. Those were the days. You young-un’s have no idea!
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[PapaBear]

This clock is quite accurate:

http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf

[highwaybs]

SYC(amore)

[cjincognito]

This clock is quite accurate:

http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf

An interesting, but weird clock.

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TO (paz)