"Time siganls"

[Anonymous]

Where i work, We have a phone number to call.. [phone] (official MRC ((CP RAIL)) time) and it'll tell us the exact time down to every 10 secondes.

(note: EST only, in both English and Fench)

Because we must keep our watches sincronized, while working.

I was jsut wondering, i know the phone number for the CP rail, do various other railways also have what is known as "time signals" some people call them "time sincronizers." Try calling that numebr, all you'll get is a voice recording. It might not work in the USA, Buy it is intresting

So the question was, or is, Do other Railroads have phone numbers to call so you can sicronize your watches while on the job?

Cheers,
kev

[edblysard]

Kev, our time keeping and tie-up computer is connected to the National Naval Observetorys, with it's atomic clock, we just go to the function page and type in time, and it displays the current time, type in your city & state, and it adjust it for the time zone your in.
Stay Frosty,
Ed

[CShaveRR]

UP (and CNW before it) has a number (several, in UP's case) to be used in setting time. It's a recording of the National Bureau of Standards time, announcing the minutes in "Coordinated Universal Time" (GMT, I suspect). Seconds are ticked off continuously, with a "miss" at the 30-second mark. Tones of various pitches are aired during the first 45 seconds of many minutes (I'm not sure what that's about), and one can also hear announcements that are presumably aids to navigation from time to time.
It would be pointless to post these numbers here, as they are probably accessible only on the UP network.

[Modelcar]

....One can purchase a battery clock to hang on the wall now or even better yet, a wrist watch from Casio around 70 some dollars that picks up the signal from the National Observatory time from the Atomic Clock and CORRECTS itself several times a day to that correct time...! That's about as good as it gets...I have one of the clocks and it is always precise in it's correct time.

QM

[edblysard]

Where did you buy it? The watch sounds like s good idea, does it have military time on it,(24 hour clock) or just a 12 hour face?
Thanks,
Ed

[Anonymous]

hmmm

I wonder if the Canadian National Railway has one (your turn to answer, CNrail.)

Cheers,
kev.

[dknelson]

the "atomic clocks" they have at work seem to be in the shop as often as they hang on the wall.
Dave Nelson