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Falky foo wrote:

| rig it to your car and drive around resetting everyone's clocks!
| that would be a hoot!

It would, but there's a few problems --

1) It would probably qualify as harmful interference and would
probably annoy the FCC, no matter how low your power. (On the other
hand, it would be next to impossible to pin it on you unless your car
had some massive antenna array on top.)

(Sidenote: with an appropriate antenna and 100 watts, you could
probably reprogram the clocks in the entire city. Though a sutiable
antenna could be very difficult to come by, since 1/4 wavelength =
1250 meters.)

2) most of those clocks only sync up a few times per day (and often
only at night), and almost all of them require several `cycles' (and
each cycle lasts a minute) to do so. So you'd have to catch them
right when they're syncing up, and they'd have to receive your signal
the entire time.)

And if the clock does continuously re-sync, then it will go back to
the correct time signal the moment it stops picking up your signal.

But yes, it could qualify as a good `hack' if done properly.

--
Doug McLaren,
"It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop
suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll
run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"