I am worried by the idea that the authorities are contemplating the complete shutdown of analogue radio in this country. And not just because digital uses more electricity
The most intriguing question is : what will it do to time? The time taken to decompress the signal varies from set to set. So Big Ben or the Greenwich time signal pips will no longer be reliable guides
Will this matter? After all, we have only had to work to a standard national time since the coming of the railways. But before that people did at least generally work to a standard local time. With digital you could even have 2 different times in your own home
