Mechanical watches may stop. In electronic, the battery may be dead. Or they just turn off the electricity for a while, and then the time data will be lost and the clock will have to be set again. And it’s best to set the exact time. Only first you need to find out.
You will need
- - TV or radio
- - telephone, landline or cellular
- - a computer or communicator connected to the Internet
Instruction manual
1
Turn on the radio or TV. Most radio stations, especially serious ones, report the exact time at the beginning of each hour. Central TV channels show screensavers with the image of the clock before the news releases, a number of TV channels show informers with the exact time and weather in the region in one of the corners of the screen constantly.
2
Make a call to the exact time phone service of your city. The telephone number of this service can be found in the telephone directory. If there is no such service in your city, call the service of another city. However, in this case, you will have to pay for long-distance telephone services. Information about the exact time in the telephone service will be provided to you by an answering machine. If there is no landline phone, you can call this number on your cell phone. But it would be better to call the operator’s help desk first. It is possible that your operator itself provides a service for determining the exact time, and this service will cost you much cheaper.
3
Use the online services to determine the exact time. There are many of them and they are all free. The advantages of this method are that you can find out the exact time anywhere in the world, and not just at your place of residence. Go to one of these sites, select the region you are interested in and see the result. Also, if desired, you can quickly calculate the time difference between your city and another by activating the corresponding service function.
4
Install on your smartphone or communicator a specialized application (widget) that shows the exact time. This application will receive data from the Internet using GPRS, EDGE or 3G-connection in accordance with the tariffs of your mobile operator, and as a result, the exact time of the region of interest to you will always be on the screen of your phone. Some widgets, in addition to time, also display weather data and other information. The applications themselves can be found and downloaded on the Internet both for free and for a small fee. The detailed installation mechanism depends on the technical features of your phone model. Details can be checked with the application developer or other users of this program.
