Greenwich Time Signal
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title:
Greenwich Time Signal
text:
The Greenwich Time Signal (GTS), popularly known as the pips, is a series of six short tones broadcast at one-second intervals by many BBC Radio stations to mark the precise start of each hour. The pips were introduced in 1924, generated by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and from 1990 were generated by the BBC in London. The broadcast pips replaced an electrical time coordination system based on the railway telegraph network, which itself was an extension of the mechanical time balls in Ports
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Series of six pips broadcast by the BBC
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Time_Signal
date created:
2003-06-06T07:21:57Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T09:05:07Z
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