At the end of the year 2018 there were lots of rumors, YouTube videos, social media/forum posts and articles from otherwise trusted news websites telling us that the 2019 Federal Budget for the USA would include a plan to shut down the Atomic Time broadcasts of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, otherwise known as NIST. Well, it's been five years. FIVE years. It's time to stop the spreading the rumors. It's time to stop believing the rumors. If you are listening to WWV or WWVH on your shortwave radio, please keep listening. The radio stations are still there! If you have a radio controlled clock or watch (or a Wave Ceptor or Multiband 6 watch) which uses the broadcast from Fort Collins, Colorado to set itself, then it can still do it. Did I mention it's been five years since these rumors were proven to be untrue? Five years?
