Deep in the Colorado foothills, there are two radio transmitters that control the time on millions of clocks all across North America. It’s WWVB, the NIST time signal radio station that sends the time ...

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: National Institute of Standards and Technology time - this is radio station WWV, Fort Collins, Colo. SIMON: WWV is the oldest continuously operating radio station in the United ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — When Daylight Saving Time arrives next month, we have to set our clocks ahead one hour. But do we, really? Many of the clocks we rely on daily actually do the resetting all by ...

NIST is changing the way it broadcasts time signals that synchronize radio-controlled "atomic" clocks and watches to official US time in ways that will enable new radio-controlled timepieces to be ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — When Daylight Saving Time ends on Nov. 2, we have to set our clocks back one hour. This happens every fall, giving us an extra hour of sleep, but costing us an hour of daylight ...

The advantage of a radio-controlled clock that receives the time signal from WWVB is that you never have to set it again. Whether it’s a little digital job on your desk, or some big analog wall clock ...

2001-01-09 04:00:00 PDT Las Vegas-- Of all the new high-tech gadgets pitched at the Consumer Electronics Show, there's only one product category that really does save time -- especially for consumers ...

Many clocks sync with a government radio station that's been proposed to be closed. Scott Simon talks with Thomas Witherspoon of the website The SWLing Post. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: National Institute of ...