While counting down to 23:59:60, you may enjoy comedian Steve Martin's take
on 2005's final moment:
http://tinyurl.com/9mv4y
Happy New Year!
Brian Garrett
I hope to have my lab PC record both MSF and DCF77 near 23:59:60 tonight.
Unfortunately, I lack the receiver and antenna needed for recording
GLONASS signals, which -- as I understood it -- will have a phase jump
in their time base thanks to the leap second. At least that is the
claim; it would
Here are some notes on facilities in some Unix systems to show
evidence of leap seconds. Some recent distributions are out of date
as noted below. Can folks check others (Solaris, *BSD, etc?).
First, this should work for everyone who cares about time and runs
ntp. Make sure you're in NTP sync
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Neal McBurnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: Here are some notes on facilities in some Unix systems to show
: evidence of leap seconds. Some recent distributions are out of date
: as noted below. Can folks check others (Solaris, *BSD, etc?).
I'll comment
Was watching time.gov and leapsecond.com (the comparative clocks).
Counted up to 23:59:60 (well, 16:59:60 in Tucson). The GPS-UTC
incremented as did the TAI-UTC. The TV didn't melt down either. No
obvious Airbuses plummeting from the sky. Life be good.
Have asked local astronomers to forward
http://www.leapsecond.com/java/nixie.htm
That was ... interesting!
If you liked the nixie clock, take a look at:
http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/%7Eyugo/storage/monocrafts_ver3/03/
index.html
There are a number of these spiffy clock interfaces that simply
overlay your computer's clock.
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Rob Seaman wrote:
Was watching time.gov and leapsecond.com (the comparative clocks).
Counted up to 23:59:60 (well, 16:59:60 in Tucson). The GPS-UTC
incremented as did the TAI-UTC. The TV didn't melt down either. No
obvious Airbuses plummeting from the sky. Life be
On Sat 2005-12-31T20:51:03 -0500, Keith Winstein hath writ:
(b) Am I mistaken, or did WWV fail to correctly beep in the new year?
We had two shortwave radios going, one on 10 MHz, one on 15 MHz,
and with the two the ionosphere was pretty much tamed.
To my memory they did it all right,
