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-----Original Message----- From: leapsecs-boun...@leapsecond.com [mailto:leapsecs-boun...@leapsecond.com] On Behalf Of leapsecs-requ...@leapsecond.com Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 12:01 PM To: leapsecs@leapsecond.com Subject: LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 91, Issue 1 Send LEAPSECS mailing list submissions to leapsecs@leapsecond.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to leapsecs-requ...@leapsecond.com You can reach the person managing the list at leapsecs-ow...@leapsecond.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LEAPSECS digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Forgetting summer time (David Malone) 2. Re: Forgetting summer time (Rob Seaman) 3. Re: Forgetting summer time (Poul-Henning Kamp) 4. Re: Forgetting summer time (David Malone) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 22:35:19 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmal...@maths.tcd.ie> Subject: [LEAPSECS] Forgetting summer time To: Leap Second Discussion List <leapsecs@leapsecond.com> Message-ID: <20140402213519.ga38...@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I've only seen this reported in the UK news, and not Ireland apocryphal, but it's a good story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/10739277/Device-exploded-in-bombers-face-after-he-forgot-about-clocks-changing.html David. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 15:50:19 -0700 From: Rob Seaman <sea...@noao.edu> Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] Forgetting summer time To: Leap Second Discussion List <leapsecs@leapsecond.com> Message-ID: <83de3f3b-ec2a-4010-a903-f38dae919...@noao.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Apr 2, 2014, at 2:35 PM, David Malone <dwmal...@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > I've only seen this reported in the UK news, and not Ireland > apocryphal, but it's a good story: > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/10739277/Devi > ce-exploded-in-bombers-face-after-he-forgot-about-clocks-changing.html More than a little suspicious of the April 1 date... ...but going along as a hypothetical, do we understand what the police's theory would be? It sounds like they are saying the bomb went off at the time specified, but the bomber had failed to leave the area because his watch remained set an hour behind the new local time? This assumes that the bomb was triggered by a timekeeping device. Fair enough I suppose (having remarkably little expertise in this area). Such a device is either a countdown timer or an alarm clock. (At least in the movies.) If the former it isn't obvious why the change to summer time would matter as long as the bomber was self consistent. If the latter I guess the thought is that the alarm clock was itself of the kind that automatically resets to summer time? (In the U.S. these are annoyingly called "atomic clocks". What do they call them in the UK?) In any event, there is nothing in the report or the various echoes on the web to suggest any evidence of this. So if not a joke (in poor taste) escaped into the wild, perhaps this is just a naive assumption due to happening on the date of such a transition? Are there other examples of such stories? Aside from millions of variations of getting to work an hour late? Rob ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 06:01:01 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] Forgetting summer time To: Leap Second Discussion List <leapsecs@leapsecond.com>, Rob Seaman <sea...@noao.edu> Message-ID: <93191.1396504...@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In message <83de3f3b-ec2a-4010-a903-f38dae919...@noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes: >This assumes that the bomb was triggered by a timekeeping device. >[...] A surprisingly popular choice is old mobile phones without SIM card: Usually you can still use the alarm function, and there is good drive current to the vibrator motor. The missing SIM card would be the key here: Without that the phone doesn't set its clock from the network. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 08:59:12 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmal...@maths.tcd.ie> Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] Forgetting summer time To: Leap Second Discussion List <leapsecs@leapsecond.com> Message-ID: <20140403075912.ga57...@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 03:50:19PM -0700, Rob Seaman wrote: > More than a little suspicious of the April 1 date... The bomb and the injured man seem to be real. They've been reported in a reputable news source before April 1st: http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0331/605645-dublin-car/ I'll see if I can find anything to support the speculation about the clock change. David. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs End of LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 91, Issue 1 *************************************** _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
