{"id":33340,"date":"2019-04-25T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=33340"},"modified":"2019-04-05T14:17:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T21:17:21","slug":"radio-controlled-clock-atomic-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/radio-controlled-clock-atomic-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Controlled Clock (&#8220;Atomic Clock&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We keep a wall clock in our main morning shower\/prep area. The one we&#8217;ve been using for years was starting to get a bit unreliable. Time to upgrade? Oh, yeah. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000AMCAUG\/cooltools-20\">La Crosse makes a clock with a radio in it<\/a> ($29) to sync to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nist.gov\/pml\/time-and-frequency-division\/radio-stations\/wwv\">WWV<\/a>, the USA&#8217;s broadcast time sync signal from a high-grade atomic clock source in the NIST system. <\/p>\n<p>It was surprising to find the LaCrosse clock to be essentially the same price as &#8220;normal&#8221; clocks. (BTW, these are &#8220;radio controlled clocks&#8221;, not atomic clocks per se, but you get it.) We picked up a 10&#8243; model. Once it did its thing and got synched, it&#8217;s to-the-second accurate. Piece of cake! It was a cool process to see, too. Not your normal tech. (It was weird at the start of DST: The overall system uses UTC, so that kicked in at 2a on the GMT timezone &#8212; several hours in advance of when it kicked in locally. Didn&#8217;t expect that, but NBD.) <\/p>\n<p>So, for those who&#8217;ve known about and perhaps discounted these things as expensive or complicated, they&#8217;re not. (There are some reviews where a few people didn&#8217;t get them to work, perhaps they were defective or in a bad place. If that happens to you, move it or try a replacement. It&#8217;s overall a good system.)<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall clock with to-the-second accuracy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33342,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33340\/revisions\/33342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}