[time-nuts] Where do people get the time?

[Hal Murray]

> The ES-192U/194U uses the AC line-frequency as a time reference

If you have one of those and you just plugged it in or want to check it, where 
do you get the time?

How good are cell phones?  I remember comments about them being way off.  But 
that was a long time ago.

If I was doing it now, I would probably setup one of the battery powered 
clocks that listens to WWVB.  When were they first widely available?

I think I used my watch back in the pre-GPS days when I was taking care of the 
time servers on Xerox-PARC's network.  I'm not sure why I thought my watch was 
any good.  I remember calling POP-CORN a few times.

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In the last day or so, KQED replayed a story about POP-CORN going away.

You Used to Be Able to Call POP-CORN and Get the Time. What Happened to That?
  https://www.kqed.org/news/11853891/you-used-to-be-able-to-call-pop-corn-and-g
et-the-time-what-happened-to-that

Here is a throwback to an earlier era some of you may remember. For decades 
there was a phone service in Northern California that would read you the time 
and date if you dialed POP-CORN, the letters that represented 767-2676. That 
service went dark back in 2007, and Bay Curious listener George wants to know 
why.

Though never an official service, Amstein says, "The phone company wanted to 
be friendly and helpful. And certainly if the operators weren't too busy and 
had time, they would answer all sorts of questions for people," like the 
weather and the current, correct time.


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