Radio Controlled

Corrected at regular intervals, often once per day, by a radio signal transmitted from an atomic clock. Radio-controlled watches have quartz movements. They pick up the radio signal by means of a small antenna inside their cases. In the United States, the time signal is broadcast by NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) from Fort Collins, Colorado. The atomic clock is itself located in Boulder.

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