I could have sworn that was Nye v Ham, not the State of the Union… On Feb 5, 2014, at 4:50 PM, Richard Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm surprised that someone on the list hasn't already pointed this out. > > Today February 5 2014 (already yesterday in much of the world) marks > the 90th anniversary of the BBC's time pips as we know them. > > I had been thinking about broadcast time signals recently. Here in the > USA we just experienced another State of the Union address. The most > interesting part of this event is the opportunity to compare the same > programming stream going out simultaneously on numerous tv channels and > radio stations. I found variation in lag between various sources of 10 > seconds or more. The 'earliest' source seemed to be a local NPR station, > although I did not include the off-the-air signals from local tv stations. > I got those from Direct TV. > > Digital buffering and decoding delays seem to be more randum than the > distribution of leap seconds. > > Richard Clark > [email protected] _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
