Hi, On 1/1/19 3:15 PM, Daniel R. Tobias wrote: > A lot of Americans synchronize their new year celebrations to the > drop of the ball in Times Square as seen on TV, which means they > celebrate a few seconds late because digital TV has an inherent delay > to it (for signal encoding or something... I really don't know the > technical details). Networks sometimes add a few more seconds to live > broadcasts to give them a chance to bleep out obscenities; I'm not > sure whether they do that with New Years Eve shows. > > The same goes for broadcasts of Big Ben ringing in the UK, or > anything other countries may use. > > As long as people put up with stuff like that, it's unlikely the > people on this list will ever make headway against the popular notion > that one more second plus or minus (as regards the presence or > absence of a leap second) is no big deal. >
Well, a typical network would allow for about 7 seconds. On top of that, US television also needs another 10 s to allow for time to react to "wardrobe malfunction" of people like Ms. Jackson to be handled. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs