The wonders of modern technology allowed me to view the Superman episode "The Mysterious Cube" today, leading to the attached (and also included below) correction to tz-art.htm. @dashdashado 1.1 510 lines 1.2 510 lines *** /tmp/,atz-art.htm 2014-11-29 19:42:45.598144300 -0500 --- /tmp/,btz-art.htm 2014-11-29 19:42:45.690149500 -0500 *************** *** 330,337 **** <li> An episode of <em>The Adventures of Superman</em> entitled "The Mysterious Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers ! of WWV to broadcast time signals five minutes ahead of actual time; ! doing so got a crook trying to beat the statute of limitations to emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure. </li> <li> --- 330,337 ---- <li> An episode of <em>The Adventures of Superman</em> entitled "The Mysterious Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers ! of the Arlington Time Signal to broadcast ahead of actual time; ! doing so got a crook trying to be declared dead to emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure. </li> <li>
Thanks, I installed that patch into the experimental version on GitHub. Wow, the Arlington Time Signal -- it's been a looong time since that phrase was in common use. Although a big deal in the early days of radio, the Arlington Radio Towers were dismantled in 1941 because they would have been a hazard to aircraft approaching the new Washington National Airport; see <http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMDEB_The_Arlington_Radio_Towers>. Perhaps the 1957 Superman episode was derived from an earlier source, a comic book say? Or maybe Superman had some time-travel powers that "The Mysterious Cube" didn't disclose....
On 30/11/14 05:32, Paul Eggert wrote:
Thanks, I installed that patch into the experimental version on GitHub.
Wow, the Arlington Time Signal -- it's been a looong time since that phrase was in common use. Although a big deal in the early days of radio, the Arlington Radio Towers were dismantled in 1941 because they would have been a hazard to aircraft approaching the new Washington National Airport; see <http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMDEB_The_Arlington_Radio_Towers>.
Perhaps the 1957 Superman episode was derived from an earlier source, a comic book say? Or maybe Superman had some time-travel powers that "The Mysterious Cube" didn't disclose....
Rugby lasted a lot longer and I have no doubt many people in the UK will still think the UK Time signals still originate there, but they transferred North in 2007. Although it is still the MSF signal after the Rugby callsign. I had thought it had moved a lot earlier as I can remember discussions in the 90's as we always used a radio clock as the time source for every station system. Interesting just scanning the differences between MSF and WWVB in relation to DST and leapseconds, but how does WWVB handle the different time zones in the US? And are they using TZ to determine when :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk
On Sun 2014-11-30T10:32:45 +0000, Lester Caine hath writ:
Interesting just scanning the differences between MSF and WWVB in relation to DST and leapseconds, but how does WWVB handle the different time zones in the US? And are they using TZ to determine when :)
The details of the WWV,WWVH,WWVH broadcasts have been tweaked many times. Much of the history is detailed in the NBS/NIST publications. Many of the tweaks were recorded and published as part of a CDROM entitled "At the Tone", and this includes the exact moment of a number of changes not easily found in NBS/NIST publications. At the inception of WWVB in 1965 all the stations gave UT in Morse code. WWVB was broadcasting purely atomic seconds with no attempt to match the coordination with UT2 that was specified by CCIR Rec. 374. WWV was located in Maryland and the voice announcements gave Eastern Standard Time. WWVH voice announcements gave Hawaii Standard Time. The CCIR issued Rec 374-1 in 1966, and that allowed for the Stepped Atomic Time of WWVB as an experimental option. At 1966-12-01T00:00:00 the Maryland transmitter stopped and the new Fort Collins Colorado transmitter began. The voice announcments became Mountain Standard Time. Earlier that year, however, the Uniform Time Act had modified 15USC261 to modify the law such that all of the US would use the same rules for daylight time starting on 1967-04-30. Avoiding that issue, at 1967-04-28T21:00 WWV and WWVH changed their voice announcements to be GMT. The voice kept saying GMT even after the leap seconds of 1972, and finally changed to saying Coordinated Universal Time on 1974-01-01T00:00. Around the US the radio-controlled clocks that use WWVB to reset themselves have switches on the back that allow the user to choose which civil time zone is desired. The ones that work well also detect the daylight time bits in the WWVB modulation, so when the radio propagation is good they do the one hour reset. -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m
On 2014-11-29 22:32, Paul Eggert wrote:
Wow, the Arlington Time Signal -- it's been a looong time since that phrase was in common use. Although a big deal in the early days of radio, the Arlington Radio Towers were dismantled in 1941 because they would have been a hazard to aircraft approaching the new Washington National Airport; see <http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMDEB_The_Arlington_Radio_Towers>.
AKA The Three Sisters "Radio" NAA http://www.w4ava.org/nl/2013/02/20/100th-anniversary-of-three-sisters-radio-... at Fort Myer http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naa-1913.jpg where the NWS, USN Signal Corps school, and US time ticks started. The time and weather broadcasts moved to NSS Annapolis, where the towers were later sent.
Perhaps the 1957 Superman episode was derived from an earlier source, a comic book say? Or maybe Superman had some time-travel powers that "The Mysterious Cube" didn't disclose....
There are other references to NAA radio call sign use in entertainment, like phone 555-1212, prior to being revived for a cold war VLF submarine radio station at Cutler, Maine. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis
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