[time-nuts] The Best way to Mark the New Year...

Max Robinson max at maxsmusicplace.com
Wed Jan 1 12:01:52 EST 2014


That latency is the price we pay for digital TV.  Local analog TV only had a 
few 10s of microseconds of delay.  Network had a few milliseconds latency 
unless passed through a satellite.

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Max.  K 4 O DS.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hal Murray" <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" 
<time-nuts at febo.com>
Cc: <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] The Best way to Mark the New Year...


>
> kyrrin at bluefeathertech.com said:
>> For us, watching the rampant lunacy on "New Year's At The Needle"
>> (referring to the Seattle landmark), and chuckling at how much latency 
>> there
>> is between the local TV station's countdown and our clocks. ...
>
> Thanks for the heads up on the latency.
>
> I checked my watch before heading off to a party tonight.  My watch is 4
> seconds fast.
>
> When midnight rolled around, I watched as the whatever-it-was on the TV
> counted down.  They had a small box with a 2 digit number counting down. 
> It
> showed 18 seconds to go when my watch showed 00:04.
>
> ------
>
> Maybe next year we should see how much delay data we can collect.  That's 
> in
> addition or instead of collecting leap second data.  The usual ball drops 
> at
> local midnight so you have the time-zone offset to separate collecting
> leap-second data and midnight-TV delay data.
>
> Do any TV stations carry serious time info?  (maybe on part of the retrace
> info)
>
> I didn't check the channel or even notice where the big event was.  The 
> party I was at was in Silicon Valley.  The TV might have been showing a 
> replay from New York City, or maybe a "live" local event.
>
>
> -- 
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>
>
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