New App Lets You Watch Old Faithful Erupt, Wherever You Are

Clocks in Yellowstone National Park might be set to Mountain Standard Time, but everyone there knows “Old Faithful Time” is the only time that matters.

“People at the park don’t look at their watches, they look at the boards to see how long it is before Old Faithful will erupt again,” Brett Oppegaard, an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii’s School of Communications, told The Huffington Post.

“At its best, the app allows users to become aligned with Old Faithful time,” Oppegaard said in a statement. “Even the person just sitting at a desk in some cubicle maze somewhere can be alerted that Old Faithful is about to erupt, turn on the mobile cam, and then join the real-time party of people around the globe enjoying this majesty of nature.”

The Huffington Post