The Shape Of Tomorrow

[Cris B]

Boulder. The stuff of dreams. This is going to be good… photos of that sunset required by law.

 

[minke]

I think there’s an atomic clock in boulder. It use to flash on the TV, 5 seconds before the news started so you could set your watch.

I presume you meant WWv in Fort Collins. I used to whipsaw between
Fort Collins and Boulder when I had a baby in each.

Radio Station WWV

Notice: Since November 15, 2021, WWV and WWVH has been broadcasting a test signal on minute 8 of eac

www.nist.gov

 

[wandrur]

I think there’s an atomic clock in boulder. It use to flash on the TV, 5 seconds before the news started so you could set your watch.

There is, indeed. It's at the Department of Commerce campus in the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology, formerly the National Bureau of Standards) building.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

^ Not to nerd out too much, but there are many - upwards of twenty (20) - atomic clocks at NIST in Boulder, all active in parallel, contributing to the US and international Universal Coordinated Time (UTC), maintained by ensemble, calculated as a weighted average, where the most stable and accurate clocks have a greater influence on the final official time.

 

[M.Brane]

The clock in my garage connects to the master. It's been pretty accurate although it will occasionally be off it corrects itself.

 

[jd_1138]

The clock in my garage connects to the master. It's been pretty accurate although it will occasionally be off it corrects itself.

How long is it not accurate for before it corrects itself? That could be problematic. I assume it's just short bursts of inaccuracy.

Colorado is a beautiful state, Ryan. Congratulations on the move. And the weather is cooler than Texas.

 

[M.Brane]

How long is it not accurate for before it corrects itself? That could be problematic. I assume it's just short bursts of inaccuracy.

Colorado is a beautiful state, Ryan. Congratulations on the move. And the weather is cooler than Texas.

It seems it will occasionally lose the signal, and fall an hour behind. Takes it about an hour to correct. It's only done it a few times. It's a long way from CA to CO.

 

[PoorUB]

Just remember that altitude sickness is real.

No kidding! Our daughter live on Colorado Springs so we get out there 2-3 times a year. About the second or third day I am just beat and don't want to do anything. I do get better after a few days, but never any where near 100%.

We have vacationed out west and have been over 5,000 feet for 2-3 weeks and I never do adjust in that time. I love the area, but it doesn't love me!

 

[PoorUB]

We moved from a two bedroom apartment to a house. Wife, daughter and myself. We labeled all the boxes to what room they go into so the slave labor we had didn't need to ask where. We put several boxes in a down stairs bedroom and there they sat. Once in a while one would get cut open to try find something. About ten years later my wife had enough and we dumped out all the boxes and tossed about 90% of it in the trash. If we didn't need it in the previous ten years, we probably wouldn't need it in the next ten.

 

[Cruzan80]

We moved from a two bedroom apartment to a house. Wife, daughter and myself. We labeled all the boxes to what room they go into so the slave labor we had didn't need to ask where. We put several boxes in a down stairs bedroom and there they sat. Once in a while one would get cut open to try find something. About ten years later my wife had enough and we dumped out all the boxes and tossed about 90% of it in the trash. If we didn't need it in the previous ten years, we probably wouldn't need it in the next ten.

We were going thru a closet over the summer, and my wife found a box labelled "Pre-Maternity Clothes". Our son turns 13 in Nov, so needless to say, the box got donated (even if they fit, they were 15yrs out of style).

 

[Sumboodie]

I think there’s an atomic clock in boulder. It use to flash on the TV, 5 seconds before the news started so you could set your watch.

That's cool.

Around 1998-99 I was working after school at a place with a ka-chunck time clock and the boss would set it to "his" time, which was over 5 mins (maybe closer to 10) off actual time. But he argued we were wrong, he was setting his watch off the bank's time/temp sign and felt it was correct.

So I bought a computer program that would dial into the atomic clock signal and set the computer's clock. Found in a magazine ad I think. And I had to write a note and mail a check to the company.

I then set a watch to that, and brought it in.
He finally set the time clock to the correct time.

You're wondering why bother?

I worked till 2200 or 2300 and on school nights I was supposed to come home right after. Well, leave at what the time clock said was 2300, but was really near 2310... and my Dad was sure I was up to no good in that time.

And yeah I know many of you all have socks older than 1980, that's ok.

 

[smokey0810]

Our move from one side of town to the other 5 years ago wasn’t fun. Amazing how much **** we accumulate….rented a storage unit a few blocks from the new house and moved little things in while we waited on the previous owners house to get finished being built. By the time moving day came, all we had was big furniture to move….got all the little stuff out of storage within a month, including all my garage stuff. Didn’t want to be one of those people paying for a storage unit 6 months down the line…

 

[WisJim]

I think there’s an atomic clock in boulder. It use to flash on the TV, 5 seconds before the news started so you could set your watch.

My dad had a short wave receiver that he used strictly for time signals from WWV, back in the 1960s, if my memory serves me well.