Peter:
Did any BBC radio station transmit the 7-pip Greenwich Time Signal for
the leap second? I did check the iPlayer repeats from BBC Radios 1
through 5 but it appears that these stations, at least via iPlayer,
didn't use it. Unlike for the 2008 leap second when Radio 5 made a big
deal about it.
-- Richard Langley
On 11-Jul-12, at 6:27 AM, Peter Vince wrote:
On 11 July 2012 02:42, Michael Spacefalcon
<[email protected]> wrote:
Of course. However, this issue would only exist if the external time
input is an ASCII string or struct in HH:MM:SS format, and I have yet
to see a system that uses such formats for time interchange. All
systems that I'm familiar with use time-as-a-real-number formats
instead: JD, MJD, time_t, NTP, etc.
SF
We use a twenty-year-old system that does just that - outputs an ASCII
string once a second at 300 baud on a good old-fashioned serial line.
Admittedly this was not designed for computer use, but for hardware
that will then drive either physical clocks, or produce SMPTE/EBU time
code (as used by radio and television broadcasting).
Peter (BBC, London)
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