[time-nuts] Leap second coming...

Rob Kimberley robkimberley at btinternet.com
Fri Jun 29 19:10:36 UTC 2012


I seem to remember someone from NPL telling me that they actually increment
the each of the last 10 seconds before the epoch by 100mS, rather than
putting in one whole second.

Rob Kimberley

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Tom Van Baak (lab)
Sent: 29 June 2012 17:39
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Leap second coming...

There's an old list of how to (and how not to) watch a leap second:
http://leapsecond.com/notes/leap-watch.htm

The NMEA output of some GPS receivers is fun to watch. Some use a double
:59:59 or double :00:00 instead of :59:60 for a positive leap second.

/tvb (iPhone4)


On Jun 29, 2012, at 17:10, David McGaw <n1hac at Alum.Dartmouth.ORG> wrote:

> Besides leapsecond.com, online there is also of course NIST/USNO's site
http://time.gov and you can listen to WWV at 303-499-7111.  If you want to
hear it online you could use Skype.
> 
> David
> 
> On 6/29/12 2:21 AM, jim s wrote:
>> I've got a note set for 6/29/2012 @ 5pm PST.  Hopefully that is the right
time.
>> 
>> any way for a challenged one to "listen"  I'm currently grazing for an
internet version of wwv to listen to, but recommendations would be great.
>> 
>> Thanks for the program pointer, Hal.
>> thanks
>> jim
>> 
>> On 6/28/2012 9:37 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
>>> Everybody ready for the big event?:)
>> 
>> 
>> 
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