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excerpt: "John Pazmino of the Boston Computer Society writes about an article he found in the LISTing N/L on how you can automatically set your QL’s internal clock to the nearest second, by using the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Atomic Clock. The U.S.N.O. transmits the time in G.M.T. (Greenwich Mean Time). By calling 202-653-0351, 24 hrs. a…"
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# Need to Set that QL Clock?

[John Pazmino](http://localhost/indiv/john-pazmino/) of the [Boston Computer Society](http://localhost/usergroup/sinclair-timex-user-group-of-the-boston-computer-society/) writes about an article he found in the LISTing N/L on how you can automatically set your QL’s internal clock to the nearest second, by using the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Atomic Clock. The U.S.N.O. transmits the time in G.M.T. (Greenwich Mean Time). By calling 202-653-0351, 24 hrs. a day. The only baud rate is 1200 and the parity rate is 7/E/1 or 8/N/1. Log on is not required.