[time-nuts] Re: BBC Radio Pips

[Philip Gladstone]

I recall, back in the 60s, my father measuring his homemade pendulum clock
against the pips each morning. He used a homemade timer to measure the
difference between the start of a pip to the pendulum signal in hundredths
of a second -- making use of the 50Hz mains to generate the 100Hz to drive
the counter.

60 years later, technology has advanced a bit! However, the town where I
live does sound its fire horn every day at noon -- presumably so that
people can set their clocks. Maybe everybody has a mobile phone these days
and can get an accurate time that way....

Philip

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 5:06 PM Stephen Tompsett via time-nuts <
time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:

>  Program on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 5th February
>
> Do We Still Need the Pips? <https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w0yw>
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