[time-nuts] Re: BBC Radio Pips

[Jeremy Elson]

I often listen to the BBC through the Internet via a smart speaker and the
latency is comically bad -- something like 10 or 15 seconds. It makes sense
to me that they'd want to retire the pips given not just the ubiquity of
alternate accurate time sources, but the pips are very wrong when the BBC
is received using modern methods.

I'm less bothered by an announcer saying "It's the top of the hour",
because the implied accuracy of such a statement is on the same order of
the actual accuracy of ~10 seconds. The pips, though, give the illusion of
sub-second accuracy when the reality is 100x worse.

Of course, the pips score high on nostalgia so I still vote to keep them in
:)

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 9:31 PM Hal Murray via time-nuts <
time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:

> Has anybody in the UK measured the accuracy of the BBC pips?
> And then the delays through a network version of BBC?
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