What Closing a Government Radio Station Would Mean for Clocks
WWV, WWVH, and WWVB are more than charity for timekeepers.  They distribute time and frequency, traceable to a national standard, for one leg of "positioning, navigation, and timing."<p>Before GPS and the internet, numerous services depended on those signals.  I would argue that now, we have positioning, navigation, and timing from multiple satellite systems (and a phone network providing excellent time & freq references derived from satellites).  We have internet time synced to atomic standards and satnav.  All of the modern references are more precise, accurate, and stable than WWV, WWVH, and WWVB.<p>As to devices which sync from WWVB, there are gadgets which can get GPS time and transmit an LF signal for syncing those devices.  No problems, ladies and gents, you've still got time.