Deep in the Colorado foothills, there are two radio transmitters that control the time on millions of clocks all across North America. It’s WWVB, the NIST time signal radio station that sends ...

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) has updated its guide to radio-controlled clocks, which the organization says is among its most-requested publications, as it is downloaded about ...

Popular radio-controlled timekeepers, which range from wristwatches to wall clocks, are not really atomic clocks -- though that's often in their name -- but they do set themselves by listening to ...

But a 2019 budget proposal for NIST would close WWV, WWVH in Hawaii and WWVB, which syncs up the time for about 50 million radio-controlled clocks, wristwatches and appliances. Thomas Witherspoon ...

This got us thinking about the clocks that set themselves. Available widely for as little as $10 or $15, these radio-controlled clocks are increasingly popular, as they adjust automatically to ...

Check to see if the signal is being received. Most digital radio-controlled clocks have an indicator on the display and some analog clocks have “a button you can push that indicates through a ...