Re: Longer leap second notice

2006-01-06 Thread John Cowan
Clive D.W. Feather scripsit: John Cowan said: Barry gules and argent of seven and six,John Cowan on a canton azure fifty molets of the second. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --blazoning the U.S. flag http://www.ccil.org/~cowan You don't get odd numbers of barry. It's

Re: ITU Request for Leap Second Experiences

2006-01-06 Thread Neal McBurnett
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:24:39PM +, Ed Mirmak wrote: Those who have submitted data, plots, or descriptions of system response to the leap second addition may want to forward those messages to ITU WP-7A. Related to the Nov 2005 U.S. proposal to the ITU to redefine UTC and abandon leap

DCF77 leapsecond documented

2006-01-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
My VLF/LF capture has started to yield information now. I captured the antennasignal from my home-brew loop antenna (http://phk.freebsd.dk/loran-c/Antenna/) with an Adlink 9812 ADC card at 12 bits and 5 million samples per second. In total I have 400GB of capture, almost 8 seconds around the

Re: Defining our terms (was Re: [LEAPSECS] Longer leap second notice)

2006-01-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Seaman writes: Perhaps what we need is simply to define our terms. A lot of the friction on LEAPSECS undoubtedly comes from conflicting meanings. Good point. Civil Time = the common basis for diverse time usage worldwide No. Civil Time is a legal

Re: Defining our terms (was Re: [LEAPSECS] Longer leap second notice)

2006-01-06 Thread William Thompson
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Universal Time = confusing term which comes handy when trying to manipulate discussions about leap second futures. I have to take issue with this one. It's obvious from the current definition and terminology used with Coordinated Universal

Re: Defining our terms (was Re: [LEAPSECS] Longer leap second notice)

2006-01-06 Thread Steve Allen
On Sat 2006-01-07T00:32:44 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: TAI Owned by BIPM / Metre Convention This is indisputably agreed to be true since the demise of the BIH. I know of no endorsement for the use of TAI outside of metrological circumstances. UTC