What
is the current Coordinated Universal Time?
NIST and the
U.S. Naval Observatory jointly operate a web site that provides
the Official U.S. Time at http://www.time.gov.
Readings from the clocks of these two agencies contribute to world
time, called Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
NIST offers
several alternatives for accessing NIST time by telephone. To hear
the same WWV time announcements by phone that you would hear using
a shortwave radio, call (303) 499-7111. This is not a toll-free
call, except in the local Boulder/Denver, CO, area. Your call will
be automatically cut off after approximately 3 minutes. To hear
the similar WWVH time announcements from Hawaii, call (808) 335-4363.
To synchronize
your computer's clock to NIST time see Set
Your Computer's Clock to NIST Time.
To learn more
about NIST's new super accurate atomic fountain clock--which shares
the distinction with a similar instrument in Paris as the most accurate
clock in the world--see this press
release and accompanying illustrations.
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