[time-nuts] Tour of METAS (Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology) time lab: any questions or requests?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <554B6547.5070207 at burnicki.net>, Martin Burnicki writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> Ask them how/why the HBG transmitter screwed up the 2006 leapsecond ?
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>If I remember correctly then the transmitter would have needed to be 
>overhauled, which would have been very expensive.

That's why they shut it down.

I'm asking why the sent the leap-second one second early in 2006 ?

See:
	http://phk.freebsd.dk/Leap/20051231_HBG/

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