When I was a kid growing up in the Detroit area the telephone company's time service gave a message every ten seconds: "At the tone, the time will be 9:45 and twenty seconds... BEEP". When I moved to Iowa City, Iowa, for graduate school, the telephone company's time service message was "The time is 9:45", no beep, no ten second update. What a culture shock that was.
Every morning the University of Iowa power plant blew a steam whistle at 8 am. People adjusted their schedules to the whistle. One year on April Fools Day they blew the whistle at 7 am. That must have caused a few heart attacks..... Dan Schultz N8FGV _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
