[BC] DST for the rest of you

Jeff Carter broadcast at hidden-valley.com
Fri Nov 1 12:46:11 CDT 2013


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:25 AM,  <richardbrianjohnson at verizon.net> wrote:
> It should be a non-event. However, I've noticed that RDS time on some FM stations in the Boston area is broken for several days after the time change.
>
> Worcester's WSRS always seems to get it right.

In Atlanta about ten years ago there was a cell tower next to
Hartsfield that kept setting my cellphone time wrong after a DST
switch.  They didn't fix it for two weeks.  I was amazed, because I
thought the cell system had to have a common clock in order to
properly encode/decode digital voice and to properly handle billing,
but I guess not.

Jeff



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