The Atomic Timekeeping Podcast Episode 04

Here's Episode 4 of the Atomic Timekeeping Podcast. In this episode, I'll talk about "other sources" of atomic time. I've told you about WWV on your shortwave radio. I've told you about radio controlled clocks that you can have in your home, in your office, or on your wrist. But that's not all.

Your comptuer can be set to automatically synchronize with the most accurate clocks on earth. And that can allow a lot of portable devices like iPods and PDAs to be set to the right time too. Plus, if you have a GPS receiver, the very concept by which it works is based on atomic timekeeping. Learn more in Episode 4.

Download Episode 4 right here...

AtomicTimekeepingPodcast04.mp3
Running time: 26:00, File Size: 12mb, Monophonic.


And, in case you haven't tried this link, visit the NIST web site for the official U.S. time...

http://www.time.gov/



Now, just a little "housekeeping" here. The date and time settings in your Windows XP system look like this:

...and here's the date and time preference screen on a Mac OS-X system.