Some of us tend to hate clocks. They tick off the time, telling
us when we’re running late. But there are times when we’re
infinitely glad to have an accurate clock in the house,
especially when it comes to waking up and getting to work on
time each day. The team at OnlineClock.net, a website that has
created the world’s original online alarm clock, has come up
with an infographic on a decidedly clock-nerd topic: How Radio-
Controlled Clocks Work. For those who don’t know, radio-
controlled clocks are the clocks you can buy nowadays which
update themselves with the accurate time every now and then via
radio waves. There are actually time servers out there sending
out the current time via low-frequency sound waves, and then
there are these clocks which are especially designed to “read”
these time signals and update themselves to the accurate time.
Radio clocks are becoming more and more widely used, especially
in the United States. The reason why: they deliver highly
accurate time settings, and they’re also beco