Canada
In Canada, the National Research Council (NRC) is the federal agency responsible for official time.
NRC time is referred to its primary cesium atomic clocks designed, built, and maintained at the NRC time standards laboratory in Ottawa.
The NRC provides a Telephone Talking Clock service; voice announcements of Eastern Time are made every 10 seconds, followed by a tone indicating the exact time. This service is available to the general public by dialing (613) 745-1576 for English service and (613) 745-9426 for French service. Long-distance charges apply for those calling from outside the Ottawa/Gatineau area. The voices of the time announcements are Harry Mannis in English and Simon Durivage in French.
The NRC also offers CHU as a continuous shortwave time broadcast and a broadcast time signal once daily on the main CBC Radio One and Première Chaîne networks.
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