Tom Van Baak skrev: > Time-Nuts -- you still have a few hours to program your cesium > clocks for the leap second! Older clocks such as the HP 5060 > and 5061 or FTS 4050 and 4060 don't have a mechanism to > add or delete a second, but most later model FTS, Datum, or > Symmetricom cesium clocks have a switch or a GUI to handle > leap seconds. See email below and attached photo for how to > update a 5071A. > > As an aside, back in the early 90's when I first got into this > precision time hobby (see www.LeapSecond.com), "catching > the leap second" was something I very much looked forward to. > > But now that I have a rather large collection of precision time > pieces, it turns out that leap seconds are a bit of a pain. It's > embarrassing to have a cesium clock sitting on a shelf, stable > to nanoseconds, but the time display is off by a second. > > Anyway, over the next day please post reports of your own leap > second events; whether you have a cesium clock, a PC clock, > a GPSDO (HP,Agilent,Thunderbolt,Oncore,Fury,Jupiter,etc.). > > A number of you did well during the last one a few years ago. > There are more subscribers on the list now so we might have > quite a variety of reports. No regular clocks bother with leap > seconds at all and a surprising number of laboratory or other > precision time instruments don't do it right. So catch them in > the act, if you can. > > Too bad http://www.humanclock.com/ ignores leap seconds.
Does your "web nixie clock" display the leap second properly? BTW. One news reporter here in Sweden had the leap second noted down to be at 01:23:49 but I think they got it a little bit wrong. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
