I was invited to dinner with friends, so I took some stuff with me. Before dinner, I explained the concept of "leap second" to the hosts' 8-year old daughter. She understood leap years already, and I think she understood the leap second explanation too.
As the appointed time (8 PM here, in EDT land): - An Apple iPhone running Emerald Time displayed 19:59:60 flawlessly. - I tried to use a web browser on an iPad to display www.time.gov. That was a dismal failure, probably because the time.gov web page uses Flash for its counting clock, and Apple doesn't support Flash. So the page was there, but there was no clock. - But my host had his PC laptop out, he was displaying www.time.gov too, and it did show 19:59:60. So we got to see it there. - My Casio WaveCeptor watch, which had synced successfully with Fort Collins at midnight this morning, did nothing. So it's now running 1 second fast. It will probably reset itself overnight, but that means it's displaying the wrong time for 4 hours or more. Tsk tsk. However, I didn't bring a video camera, so I have no images of any of this. My hosts had never seen a leap second before, and they thought it was neat. Dave PS: I looked up "leap second" on Wikipedia one hour after the event, and someone had already updated the photo to show the most recent leap second from the NIST page (not that it's likely to be much different from the previous time). _______________________________________________ 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.