[time-nuts] DCF77 clock with UTC display

mike cook mike.cook at orange.fr
Sat Jun 5 21:51:19 UTC 2010


DCF77 is transmitted  in  CET/CEST and so receivers generally just 
display the received data with some allowing other TZ offsets as it can 
be received in the UK for example. I also lucked out when looking for 
one where daylight savings adjustments could be removed .

Le 05/06/2010 23:37, Giuseppe Marullo a écrit :
>
> Harry,
> thanks for your answer. I tried to look at the instructions, but I am 
> unable to tell for certain if it can display UTC.
> I mean, there is a mention about foreign time, but everything else is 
> about no need to manually setup Winter/Summer time, exactly what I 
> would like to avoid.
> How could I be sure that a DCF77 clock does display/support UTC time?
>
> Giuseppe Marullo
>
> PS: I have one cheap Oregon Scientific Radio Controlled and I believe 
> it does not support UTC
>
> On 6/5/2010 5:39 PM, Harry Hindriks wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do you mean something like this?
>>
>> http://www.conrad-international.com/websale7/?shopid=conrad-int&act=product&prod_number=671628 
>>
>>
>> They sell several radio controlled clocks. Most of these clocks can
>> display UTC.
>>
>> Harry
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:27:05 +0200, Giuseppe 
>> Marullo<giuseppe at marullo.it>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I would like to know which could be the cheapest clock (possibly not
>>> wristwatch) that would display UTC time. It seems that DCF77 clocks
>>> either display CET/CEST and/or other timezone but I was unable to 
>>> locate
>>> a UTC display so far.
>>>
>>> This is the closest match I found, sadly it does not decode DCF77:
>>>
>>> http://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=MFJ-108B
>>>
>>> Do you know any viable alternative in EU?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> Giuseppe Marullo
>>>
>>>
>>>
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