Greenwich Time.
DAILY RECEIPT BY WIRELESS
W ELLINGTON, April 4.
Since March 18th, says the “Dominion.” Wellington has been receiving exact Greenwich time by wireless daily. As it happens Greenwich time does not come from Greenwich in this instance, for under an international agreement the time is sent out from Bordeaux in France and it is through the ticking of the official timepiece connected to the wireless transmitter that we in New Zealand are advised off the exact “fGreenwrch” time, that is to say. Dr C. E. Adams, the Government astronomer, who is now provided with a wireless receiving set and aerials at the Kelbuvn obseiva-
tor.v, is actually able to hea r the taking of the clock in Bordeaux, and by ~ this means is able to get Greenwich time to the fraction of a second, a scientific achievement of no little importance. The tick is picked up at 7.30 a.m. each day. The clock in Bordeaux is connected to the wireless transmitter at 8.30 p.m., New Zealand being eleven hours ahead of France in time. What is aimed at is p,recipe synchronisation in the tick of the clocks here and at Bordenux and the wireless has made that possible. As in ordinary wireless all the world can be heard talking at first, Iml bv a process of “timing out” the Bordeaux “tick” comes clear to the ear, 3CO ticks being given so that all the nations may adjust their clocks to file true stellar time. The true time is then wirelessed out from Wellington to all who wish to know : it. It is particularly valuable to mariners to receive such information, as it makes for exactitude in calculations. Not so very long ago a vessel was blown a good way out of her course off the coast of New Zealand in thick dirty weather, but picking up the exact time she was able to set her course correctly and so save anything up to a hundred tons of coal. The Bordeaux time advice is international in character, that is to say, it has British and other brains behind it and is in daily cionimunication with ill centres.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1922, Page 4
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358Greenwich Time. Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1922, Page 4
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