[time-nuts] Fw: How to schedule a leap second on 5071A?

[Magnus Danielson]

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