[time-nuts] Low cost synchronization

[Mike Ciholas]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Tom Van Baak wrote:

> This sounds odd to me given that cell phones I've seen can 
> display the date & time and they appear to be accurate to a 
> second.

In my experience, cell phones are accurate to within a second as 
compared to the WWVB sources.  That is more than we need.

> By the way, Mike, have you considered if your battery-operated, 
> fob-sized, world-wide, low-cost, synchronization device will be 
> allowed through US airports?

What sort of problems would you expect?  It should be no 
different than a WWVB wrist watch since that basically the same 
internals without the display.  It will look like a harmless 
inert key fob, much like RFID key fobs used for keyless entry.

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