Re: [time-nuts] A Leap Second is coming

2016-12-31 Thread Wannes Sels
Here's mine on my Casio F-91W http://imgur.com/yjbhXh6 On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 4:09 AM Nick Sayer via time-nuts wrote: > Here's what I got: > > https://youtu.be/nGMFzhNFrb4 > > It worked as I expected. 4:00:00 PM was two seconds long. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Dec 30, 2016, at 11:49 AM, N

Re: [time-nuts] Line Voltage [Was: Anyone (ideally in the UK) ...]

2016-12-31 Thread Ruslan Nabioullin
On 01/01/2017 12:07 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: Just a comment for anyone who wants to log line voltage v. time. If you have an APC "Smart UPS" battery backup unit these will log voltage and frequency to a file. The unit connects to a computer via USB (and an AC power cable). As a more profes

Re: [time-nuts] Leap-second capture on laptop

2016-12-31 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote: > While not fancy by any means, my laptop captured the leap-second being > inserted by this message in the /var/log/syslog: > Jan 1 00:59:59 greytop kernel: [78458.839942] Clock: inserting leap > second 23:59:60 UTC > On my Ubuntu desktop,

Re: [time-nuts] Line Voltage [Was: Anyone (ideally in the UK) ...]

2016-12-31 Thread Jeremy Nichols
Another option is to belong to the FNET/GridEye group operated by the University of Tennessee (http://fnetpublic.utk.edu/index.html). They have placed frequency/voltage monitors all over the United States; they also list sites out side USA but I don't know if those are their devices. The monito

[time-nuts] Line Voltage [Was: Anyone (ideally in the UK) ...]

2016-12-31 Thread Jeremy Nichols
[Sorry for the blank post earlier—TVB reminded me posts have to be plain text. My post was sent from my new-to-me iPad, probably in HTML. Have to learn how to turn that off!] I too am concerned about high power-line voltage harming my collection of new and old electronics. A couple years ago I

Re: [time-nuts] Line Voltage [Was: Anyone (ideally in the UK) ...]

2016-12-31 Thread Chris Albertson
Just a comment for anyone who wants to log line voltage v. time. If you have an APC "Smart UPS" battery backup unit these will log voltage and frequency to a file. The unit connects to a computer via USB (and an AC power cable). You can collect data over a wide area using these power supplies,

[time-nuts] Resolution T temperature shift at leap second?

2016-12-31 Thread Mark Sims
Your Res-T is running on GPS time which has no leap-seconds. My bet is the temperature drop was due to your environment and not leap second processing. But those first-gen Res-T's are a bit quirky... -- >I was running my resolution T at the leap second but LH 5.0 did not capture t

[time-nuts] Line Voltage [Was: Anyone (ideally in the UK) ...]

2016-12-31 Thread Jeremy Nichols
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[time-nuts] Resolution T temperature shift at leap second?

2016-12-31 Thread Peter Reilley
I was running my resolution T at the leap second but LH 5.0 did not capture the blessed event! So I don't know how it was reported. Then I noticed that the temperature took a dive afterwards. That seems odd. I have only been running this a few weeks and may not have noticed such occurrences

Re: [time-nuts] A Leap Second is coming

2016-12-31 Thread Nick Sayer via time-nuts
Here's what I got: https://youtu.be/nGMFzhNFrb4 It worked as I expected. 4:00:00 PM was two seconds long. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 30, 2016, at 11:49 AM, Nick Sayer via time-nuts > wrote: > > I'm going to definitely observe my GPS clock to check its behavior. It > *should* repeat secon

Re: [time-nuts] Leap-second capture for chronyd NTP

2016-12-31 Thread Vlad
Here is my observation for NTP 'chronyd'. The NTP setup is based on 1PPS (from Trimble TB) and kernel extension (pps_core) As leap second event happens, I noticed the "system clock" (NTP machine) was one second behind. Then it took around 16 minutes for 'chronyd' to gradually align system cl

[time-nuts] Leap second - MSF time signal

2016-12-31 Thread Deirdre O'Byrne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpBxB2Yqh-U Time signal - 0011223344556 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 Starting at 23:58:00 - A 1000101101001011000111010001110110010110 B 10

[time-nuts] DirecTV question in regards to leap second

2016-12-31 Thread Chris Waldrup
Hi, I noticed something interesting tonight. Right after I took the leap second photos out in my workshop I came inside to show the photos to my wife and son. My wife was in the living room yelling at the TV, apparently the hockey game she was watching was messing up and the audio was dropping

Re: [time-nuts] Leap-second capture on laptop

2016-12-31 Thread Magnus Danielson
Good evening David, On 01/01/2017 02:27 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: On 1 January 2017 at 01:00, Magnus Danielson wrote: Fellow time-nuts, While not fancy by any means, my laptop captured the leap-second being inserted by this message in the /var/log/syslog: Jan 1 00:5

[time-nuts] Leap second results

2016-12-31 Thread Mark Sims
I ran Heather on 9 different receivers. Only three did the leap-second "right" with a time of 23:59:60 (which unfortunately shows up on the screen as 00:00:60)... long story... sorry... The Trimble Thunderbolt, Venus 8 timing receiver, and the Z3811A (which the automatic screen capture got

Re: [time-nuts] Capture of leapsecond on HP 58503A time and frequency reference receiver

2016-12-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
Reposting the output in a fixed width font. It looked fixed on my other client. I note the clock says "Time _ +1 leap second pending" at 23:59:60, which one can argue is wrong. *Status reports a couple of times before the leap second. * scpi > SYSTEM:STATUS? ---

Re: [time-nuts] Version 5 wrong leap second

2016-12-31 Thread Hal Murray
> I had LH on a ks24361. I think it displayed :00 for 2 seconds (my attempt to > record it failed). The autocapture (attached) was a little too early. I > guess this is because LH is polling the receiver every second and the actual > content depends on what the receiver replies and when it does i

[time-nuts] Leapsecond on Apple iOS

2016-12-31 Thread Magnus Danielson
Fellow time-nuts, Several friends observed that their Apple devices, laptop and phones, did not handle the leap second timely. One recorded the UTC+1h time with the sequence 00:59:57 00:59:58 00:59:59 01:00:00 01:00:01 01:00:01 <- leap second inserted 01:00:02 01:00:03 The other dug up that

Re: [time-nuts] Version 5 wrong leap second

2016-12-31 Thread EB4APL
Mine showed 01:00:60 but it is configured to Madrid LT, so it means 00:00:60 UTC also. My receiver is a Trimble NTGS50AA, close cousin of a Tbolt. Ignacio, EBA4PL El 01/01/2017 a las 1:33, Pete Stephenson escribió: On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Bill Beam wrote: My LH v5.00 showed leap se

Re: [time-nuts] Leap-second capture on laptop

2016-12-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 1 January 2017 at 01:00, Magnus Danielson wrote: > Fellow time-nuts, > > While not fancy by any means, my laptop captured the leap-second being > inserted by this message in the /var/log/syslog: > Jan 1 00:59:59 greytop kernel: [78458.839942] Clock: inserting leap > second 23:59:60 UTC > Not

Re: [time-nuts] Leap second on LEA-6T

2016-12-31 Thread Philip Gladstone
Bob, I use the AID-HUI message to get the time of the next leapsecond. I use the utcWNF and utcDN to get the day number of the next leap second. Since it always happens at the end of the UTC day, this gives you the time. utcLS and utcLSF give you the the before/after offsets. Yes, it doesn't

[time-nuts] Leap-second capture on laptop

2016-12-31 Thread Magnus Danielson
Fellow time-nuts, While not fancy by any means, my laptop captured the leap-second being inserted by this message in the /var/log/syslog: Jan 1 00:59:59 greytop kernel: [78458.839942] Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC Gently pointing out it had registered a leap second and inserted i

Re: [time-nuts] Version 5 wrong leap second

2016-12-31 Thread Adrian Godwin
I had LH on a ks24361. I think it displayed :00 for 2 seconds (my attempt to record it failed). The autocapture (attached) was a little too early. I guess this is because LH is polling the receiver every second and the actual content depends on what the receiver replies and when it does it ? I wa

[time-nuts] Leap second on LEA-6T

2016-12-31 Thread Bob Stewart
Here's the leap second as my GPSDOs saw it.  But, I'm still in the dark about how Ublox does their pending leap second notification.  There are very few messages that have any leap second info, and I had hoped that the aiding message AID-HUI would do something at the leap second.  But, the messa

Re: [time-nuts] Version 5 wrong leap second

2016-12-31 Thread Pete Stephenson
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Bill Beam wrote: > My LH v5.00 showed leap second as 00:00:60 on a Tbolt. Not good > > Previous June 2015 LH v3.10 correctly showed 23:59:60 > > If interested, I have screen captures. Now that you mention it, so did mine... _

[time-nuts] Version 5 wrong leap second

2016-12-31 Thread Bill Beam
My LH v5.00 showed leap second as 00:00:60 on a Tbolt. Not good Previous June 2015 LH v3.10 correctly showed 23:59:60 If interested, I have screen captures. Bill Beam NL7F ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to h

[time-nuts] My analog clock capturing the leap second

2016-12-31 Thread Philip Gladstone
https://goo.gl/photos/RZKqsgZqv2mH5UYK6 This is a video of my cheapo clock (which is NTP synchronized via an ESP8266 module running LUA). Actually synched to a local NTP/PTP server using GPS. OT When the leap second happened, the kids complained that Netflix stopped working! Coincidence? P

[time-nuts] WWVB leap

2016-12-31 Thread Scott Newell
Decent signal tonight. Looks like they got the DUT1 bits (from -0.4 to +0.6 s), the leap year bits, and the leap second bits switched over on schedule, too. Sat Dec 31 23:59:00 2016 | | X Sat Dec 31 23:59:01 2016 |

[time-nuts] Capture of leapsecond on HP 58503A time and frequency reference receiver

2016-12-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby - Kirkby Microwave Ltd
This was a bit hit and miss. I sent 'SYSTEM:STATUS?' by hand, when I thought it was the right time. I got lucky. There are a couple of outputs before the leapsecond, and one or two after it. I did an audio recording on my Virgin mobile phone. I'll upload that later, after some sleep. Dave s

[time-nuts] HP 4352A/B with different signal generator

2016-12-31 Thread Bob Bownes
There was a thread about using a different SG with the 4352A/B about seven years ago. I happened upon the answer today. Set the SG type from the LO menu. Type 1: 8664A/B Type 2: 8657B Type 3: 8648B/C, E8241A, E8244A, E8251A, E8255A Type 4: User defined. To define your own, use the GPIB "

Re: [time-nuts] Anyone (ideally in the UK) got a spare rotary knob for the 5370B TI counter?

2016-12-31 Thread Adrian Godwin
David, You're a volt-nut too, aren't you ? Maybe motorise the variac and keep your lab at 240V +/- almost-nothing ? On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Tom Miller wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave > Ltd)" > To: "Discussion of precise time and frequ

Re: [time-nuts] Anyone (ideally in the UK) got a spare rotary knob for the 5370B TI counter?

2016-12-31 Thread Tom Miller
- Original Message - From: "Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)" To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2016 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Anyone (ideally in the UK) got a spare rotary knob for the 5370B TI counter? On 31

Re: [time-nuts] Leap Second Smear Monitoring

2016-12-31 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi, Thought I just remind people that an alternative is to provide UT1 time, as Judah Levine had been doing on a NIST NTP server as a test of concept. Then again, do regular testing of systems to see how they handle leap seconds and fix things until it works is also a quite workable solution.

Re: [time-nuts] Leap Second Smear Monitoring

2016-12-31 Thread Tom Van Baak
Scott -- Thanks very much for doing this, and doing it live. List -- For some background, see these two papers by Martin Burnicki: https://www.meinberg.de/download/burnicki/ntp_leap_smearing_test_results.pdf https://www.meinbergglobal.com/download/burnicki/Leap%20Second%20Smearing%20With%20NTP.p

[time-nuts] Z3801A sending invalid date

2016-12-31 Thread Mark Sims
My Z3801A just started sending an invalid date in the "T2" format time code message (which is its default format). It says the date is 2017/01/00 and Lady Heather rejects the data and the clock stops updating. My receiver went into rollover last August and I manually set the date which cured t

Re: [time-nuts] Anyone (ideally in the UK) got a spare rotary knob for the 5370B TI counter?

2016-12-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 31 December 2016 at 13:03, EB4APL wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not totally sure about the limits, but I have read several times that > in the UK the nominal supply voltage is 230 V +10%/−6% to accommodate the > fact that most supplies are in fact still 240 V. The context was that a lot > of test equip

[time-nuts] Leap Second Smear Monitoring

2016-12-31 Thread Scott Newell
I'm trying to watch the google NTP server leap second smear. This page should update once/minute with my latest data. http://www.n5tnl.com/time/leap_2016/index.html Sorry about the coarse resolution--I've set another monitor station to poll more often and I'll try and append that graph shortly

Re: [time-nuts] TS2100: Upgrading oscillator?

2016-12-31 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
Bruce, Based on information previously posted here I was able to do this earlier this year. I wrote it up: https://aerographic.tumblr.com/post/139872571444/datumsymmetricom-ts2100-irig-ocxo-heol-n024-gps You're looking for a low profile MTI 240 OCXO. That would be easiest, but many others wi

[time-nuts] FE-5650A option 58 tuning word for 10 MHz output

2016-12-31 Thread Mathias Weyland
Hello guys I'm new to this list. I got myself a FE-5650A Rubidium Standard off of ebay. It's the "option 58" 1 pps output variant, hence I have to modify the tuning word used in the DDS phase accumulator to get 10 MHz out. I found a vast amount of awesome descriptions on how to do that on the

Re: [time-nuts] Anyone (ideally in the UK) got a spare rotary knob for the 5370B TI counter?

2016-12-31 Thread EB4APL
Hi, I'm not totally sure about the limits, but I have read several times that in the UK the nominal supply voltage is 230 V +10%/−6% to accommodate the fact that most supplies are in fact still 240 V. The context was that a lot of test equipment failed when operated at around 250 V and many i

Re: [time-nuts] Anyone (ideally in the UK) got a spare rotary knob for the 5370B TI counter?

2016-12-31 Thread David C. Partridge
230VAC +10% -6%, so 253 is the upper limit. 248V is not unusual as for historic reasons some parts of UK still actually supply 250V ... When we "harmonized" our mains with the EU, we changed the specification from 240V +/- 5% (I think) and didn't actually change any equipment. Happy New Year

Re: [time-nuts] Anyone (ideally in the UK) got a spare rotary knob for the 5370B TI counter?

2016-12-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 31 Dec 2016 02:03, "Bob Stewart" wrote: > > If you can touch the heat sink for 2 seconds, you're made of sterner stuff than I am! They run very hot. It's a good idea to get a GPIB extender so your GPIB cable can clear the heat sink. Somebody, can't remember who, worked up a nice looking conv