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The Department of Defense master clock is the atomic master clock to which time and frequency measurements for the United States Department of Defense are referenced. Located in Washington D.C., the U.S. Naval Observatory master clock is designated as the "DOD Master Clock".
In the United States, the United States Naval Observatory provides the standard of time, called UTC(USNO), for the United States military and the Global Positioning System, [1] while the National Institute of Standards and Technology provides the standard of time for civil purposes in the United States, called UTC(NIST).
US Naval Observatory outside display of the master clock time. The U.S. Naval Observatory provides public time service via 26 NTP [33] servers on the public Internet, [36] and via telephone voice announcements: [37] +1 202 762-1401 (Washington, DC) +1 202 762-1069 (Washington, DC) +1 719 567-6742 (Colorado Springs, CO)
Master clock (at left) driving several slave clocks in an enthusiast's garage. The third one from the left at the top is a radio-controlled clock for reference. The master atomic clock ensemble at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., which provides the time standard for the U.S. Department of Defense. [1]
The master atomic clock ensemble at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., which provides the time standard for the U.S. Department of Defense. [1] The rack mounted units in the background are HP 5071A cesium beam clocks. The black units in the foreground are Sigma-Tau MHM-2010 hydrogen maser standards.
This correction attachment would move the clock hands precisely to the hour (Patent No. 339,688). If the clock is not absolutely accurate, it would be corrected when receiving the hourly time signal over a telegraph line from a master clock calibrated to the US Naval Observatory. This correction was referred to as synchronizing, and many SWCC ...
The U.S. Naval Observatory Alternate Master Clock at Schriever AFB (Colorado) is a stratum 0 source for NTP Yellow arrows indicate a direct connection; red arrows indicate a network connection. NTP uses a hierarchical, semi-layered system of time sources.
Standard time came into existence in the United States on 18 November 1883. Earlier, on 11 October 1883, the General Time Convention, forerunner to the American Railway Association, approved a plan that divided the United States into several time zones. On that November day, the US Naval Observatory telegraphed a signal that coordinated noon at ...