Will the switch from Rugby to Anthorn, Cumbria affect me?
The UKs time signal is on the move after 80 years in Rugby. The time signal used to set Britains clocks with extreme accuracy is on the move from Rugby, where it has been transmitted since 1927, to a new home in Anthorn in Cumbria. The signal, often referred to as The time from Rugby, will be known as The Time from NPL from April 2007. The time signal is accurate to within one thousandth of a second and supports a range of professional services. These include 999 communications, rail networks, cash machines and mobile phone networks. The signal is also used in homes and offices around the country. It helps synchronise servers for businesses and enables Packet-Switching, the protocol used to send and receive information across the internet. The National Physical Laboratory is home to the nations atomic time and one of only five laboratories worldwide using the latest caesium fountain to contribute to the world time standard Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).The signals transmission is ti
