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General Science / Re: What is each solar day a couple of minutes faster or slower than the previous?
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They already do! A cheap (?20) wall clock or a medium-price (?300) wristwatch now incorporates automatic synchronisation to national radio time standards every day.
Which brings me to a further question. Not all states in the USA or Australia adopt the stupid "summer time" clock shift, but AFAIK there is only one national time standard. What happens in Arizona, for instance, when all the other radio clocks resynchronise?
And when will the world wake up and adopt UTC everywhere? No need for a wobbly dateline, incompatible timetables, faffing about with a manual watch or wondering whether you can actually receive the local signal when you travel: as I write, it's 1750 everywhere in the universe!
Which brings me to a further question. Not all states in the USA or Australia adopt the stupid "summer time" clock shift, but AFAIK there is only one national time standard. What happens in Arizona, for instance, when all the other radio clocks resynchronise?
And when will the world wake up and adopt UTC everywhere? No need for a wobbly dateline, incompatible timetables, faffing about with a manual watch or wondering whether you can actually receive the local signal when you travel: as I write, it's 1750 everywhere in the universe!