[NJARC] The end of radio time signaling?

[Matt Reynolds]

The biggest impact may be to all the non-radio geeks out there that don't understand how these magic clocks work.  They know it's "atomic", set it up once, and then don't mess with it.


So many of these "atomic clocks" you see in stores will stop working.  Who knows what people are "using" them for.  They are marketed as accurate, so people factor that in to their use.  Not as big of a deal for home, but if small, less professional businesses are using them for something, it may or may not be a more significant impact.  Even our site at work bought them for conference rooms because our 30 YO PBX clock would drift so bad.  That hardware was replaced, everything is relatively time-sync'd internally via time servers (which I presume at some point talk to an atomic clock somewhere in the world) now, but it was a simple solution in the eyes of managers to solve a very simple problem.


I don't know if shutting these down would stop the world per se, but it's a pity to lose another useful technology used by those that don't necessarily understand how it works.  The more savvy will be able to work around it.  Those that aren't, will be late?


Matt



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