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Old 03-15-2010, 06:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Cdnwolf View Post
I guess my real question is who is going to be the keeper of the official time? The worlds atomic clock was probably destroyed in one of the nuclear attacks and after batteries die in watches who is going to be the one to say what Zulu time really is?

Just curious.
At Greenwich you'd be able to use charts and tables and the time of sunrise and sunset to get a reasonably accurate fix on the time. I guess anyone within radio range of Greenwich would be able to syncronise their time over the radio?
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