Listener Who Finds Time Signals Useful

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 10, 15 September 1933, Page 15

Listener Who Finds Time Signals Useful

To the Editor. Sir,-May I be permitted to reply to "76 Tirau’s" letter re time signals. ‘He wants to know what use they are and why we get them. Personally, I find them invaluable for rating clocks and watches and I suppose hundreds of other listeners make similar use of these aceurate

time pips. Their primary use is, of course, the rating of ships’ chronometers. "76 irau" says that the time is frequently given out during the day. This is very convenient for the housewife to set the kitchen clock by, but if your correspondent gives the matter a little thought he will realise that this is not of much use for the accurate rating of timepieces, as the average person cannot say whether it is 12 o’clock on the first stroke of the clock or on the twelfth stroke.

I join with your other correspondents in their appreciation of your splendid weekly.-L am, etc., --- =a eo See

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Wellington.