National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Clock

If you want to now what the time is exactly, the NIST Time and Frequency Division thoughfully provides this information via a modem dial-up line. Call 1-303-494-4774. The current time will be displayed once per second for about three seconds and then they will hang up.

The output format looks like:


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47941 050 212218 UTC

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47941 050 212219 UTC

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47941 050 212220 UTC

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For the curious, the universal time code fields break out to:

The source code of a program I ported to SGI IRIX can be retrieved as a gzip'd file:

nbs.tar.gz

The source was originally written for the Amiga. The tar file contains auxillary programs of use on the Amiga. I can't vouch for them as I never bothered to port it to my Amiga.

People interested in the difference between GMT and UTC should read the document titled A Walk Through Time published by the NIST Physics Laboratory. They have a link off their site to NIST Web Clock.

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