[time-nuts] Leap second smear at Google

2013-09-20 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
le on such days ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyRKQ84ztkE Christopher Quarksnow ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

Re: [time-nuts] NITZ Timestamps

2013-08-21 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
Maybe the 15 second offset was to compensate for the old Android bug that derived time from GPS rather than UTC ; Sprint told me at that time they drove most towers with Stratum 2 ref. and only my Android phones exhibited the issue. The other ones were no more than 0.1 sec off. On Wed, Aug 21, 20

Re: [time-nuts] Checking Time difference between PCs

2013-05-25 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
> > -Original Message- > From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On > Behalf Of Christopher Quarksnow > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 9:06 PM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Checking Tim

Re: [time-nuts] Checking Time difference between PCs

2013-05-24 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
un...@febo.com] On > Behalf Of Christopher Quarksnow > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 9:06 PM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Checking Time difference between PCs > > This might do, even though I doubt the routines are using rdts

Re: [time-nuts] Checking Time difference between PCs

2013-05-23 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
This might do, even though I doubt the routines are using rdtsc to interpolate nondeterministic offset of the PIC architecture. w32tm /stripchart /computer: [/period:] [/dataonly] [/samples:] The current time is 3/8/2009 21:05:30 (local time).21:05:30 d:+00.000s o:+00.3047845s Cheers, Chris

Re: [time-nuts] OT: eBay Contact Congress

2013-04-22 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
Just check the mail header (viewing message source in your mail client) and look for the originating ip address. Then go to arin.net and see if e-bay owns that block ; if the ip address is from Nigeria, arin will refer you to Afrinic, or whatever RIR it's under. Hope this helps, Chris On Mon, A

Re: [time-nuts] RE; New Wrist watch

2012-09-12 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
There are many Wave Ceptor LCD versions such as WVM120J-1 (about $27) or WV59A-1AV (about $49) that might not have the spin issue. Chris On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Robert Darlington wrote: > The waveceptor's are okay but I can't wear mine much because I tend to > cross timezones a lot.

Re: [time-nuts] 15 Seconds error...??

2012-01-16 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
GPS was incepted in 1982, at which point it was equal to UTC ; since then, 15 leap seconds were introduced to UTC, thus the 15-second offset and by next July 1st, it will be 16 seconds. The most common use of GPS time (hybrid?) is the Android system time, even though Samsung Android phones use UTC

Re: [time-nuts] US New Year countdown - accurate?

2012-01-07 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
It was accurate. I was right there using Android UTC time application. Also about the leap-second on July 1st, this will allow revealing whether Samsung just did a 15-second offset hack to get around Google bug 5485 (that makes non-Samsung Android phones currently 15 seconds fast), or if really the

[time-nuts] Looking for 8-digit LED clock

2011-09-28 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
Wondering whether anyone would know of an off-the-shelf (even used) LED clock with 1/100th of seconds and switchable to 24H mode (e.g going up to 23:59:59.99) The closest I found was at Pylones a director's clock, yet the last 2 digits were for frames, going from 0 to 23 and now they made a smaller

Re: [time-nuts] Google NTP Servers and smearing leap seconds...

2011-09-15 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
It's interesting to see the title "*Why time matters at Google*" in the blog when Androis bug 5485 has not been fixed in over two years, and most Android-based phones are 15 seconds fast, as GPS-disciplined rather than UTC. It appears only Samsung got around When hearing about this, Daniel Gamb

Re: [time-nuts] What is NIST "official time" ?

2011-08-04 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
:02, Chris Albertson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Christopher Quarksnow > wrote: > > Wondering whether anyone can clarify what discipline the Boulder, CO NIST > > facility is broadcasting (or showing on time.gov) and qualified as "The > > official U.S. tim

[time-nuts] What is NIST "official time" ?

2011-08-04 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
Wondering whether anyone can clarify what discipline the Boulder, CO NIST facility is broadcasting (or showing on time.gov) and qualified as "The official U.S. time". It appears to be about 20 seconds slower than UTC and I could not find the relation to other known time scales such as TAI, UTC, ET,

[time-nuts] NIST "official time"

2011-08-03 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
Wondering whether anyone can clarify what discpline the Boulder, CO facility is broadcasting... It appears to be about 20 seconds slower than UTC and I could not find the relation to other known time scales like TAI, UTC, ET, UT1, GPS or possibly grid or broadcast-interconnected reference. Thanks !

Re: [time-nuts] My Custom GPS clock

2011-07-23 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
Hello, Bert - Not having that much experience, I am wondering whether I could retrofit their DE-DP22811 http://www.sureelectronics.net/goods.php?id=1164 to make an 8 digits clock having 1/100s: 23 59 59 99 Based in NYC and ideally I would feed it UTC reference, either by GPS minus 15 seconds (as

[time-nuts] ARe: 60Hz zero-crossingAa

2011-06-29 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
QAAAaQpaPA On Jun 29, 2011 7:17 PM, "Pete Lancashire" wrote: > Someone mentioned a modern chip for detecting zero crossing. > > I seem to have deleted it > > Anyone have it ? > > -pete > > ___ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscri

Re: [time-nuts] usb serial converter

2011-06-15 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
Just to set the record straight about DOS not supporting USB : http://bretjohnson.us/ Christopher On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 20:25, wrote: > Just a side note here should it ever come up, those usb serial converters > don't work in DOS. DOS doesn't support USB. You can kind of get them working > in

Re: [time-nuts] GPS interference and history...

2011-06-10 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
Also given that Galileo is subtantially delayed due to European budget constraints http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/07/eus-galileo-satnav-system-orbiting-way-past-budget-delayed-unt/ it does not seem like it can be expected to mitigate the issue for navigation purpose, aside political implications a

Re: [time-nuts] IEEE Spectrum Magazine interviews one of our own...

2011-05-25 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
apply to multiples of 400 like year 2000. Just my 2¢ Christopher Quarksnow On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:30, cook michael wrote: > Le 25/05/2011 04:00, Tom Holmes a écrit : > > > Steven Cherry is exaggerating when he says " most systems go down for > planned maintenance inste