Re: [LEAPSECS] Judah Levine of NIST

2021-04-23 Thread John Hawkinson
rson after they have died. It would be great if you could avoid using it for other purposes, especially when we're at a time when a lot of people are unexpectedly and untimely losing their lives. Thanks. -- jh...@alum.mit.edu John Hawkinson ___

Re: [LEAPSECS] Greetings from an intercalary second

2017-01-01 Thread John Hawkinson
change parses and stores head information in something other than the native message format. --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

Re: [LEAPSECS] NIST UT1 NTP server results

2016-07-22 Thread John Hawkinson
ly 2016. Announcement reproduced below. I found your email fairly confusing. --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson Message-ID: <25948628.481467094028650.javamail.cmad...@gsb50ml1.ffm.web> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 08:07:08 +0200 From: To: Subject: IERS Mes

Re: [LEAPSECS] Did John Oliver just save the leap-second ?

2015-07-02 Thread John Hawkinson
ate to summarize that other person's work. You could put a note on the talk page though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:NTP_server_misuse_and_abuse --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6

Re: [LEAPSECS] problem fetching Leap_Second_History.dat ?

2015-03-27 Thread John Hawkinson
ould be using urllib not httplib. But I think PHK (and Rob) can figure this out offline. --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

Re: [LEAPSECS] Future time

2014-01-19 Thread John Hawkinson
3pm.") It's not so easy to decide what the appropriate precision necessarily is for user interactions. It's...tricky. --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

Re: [LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

2014-01-13 Thread John Hawkinson
an "UTC," and possibly for similar reasons. --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

Re: [LEAPSECS] other ignored leap conventions

2013-01-01 Thread John Hawkinson
conds? It might instead have been titled "How many Little Princes does it take to stabilize our planet?" --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

Re: [LEAPSECS] GMT v. UTC

2012-01-04 Thread John Hawkinson
27;t know why you think a single "word" cannot mean two very different things. --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

Re: [LEAPSECS] New Year in Times Square

2010-12-31 Thread John Hawkinson
is responsible and see what I can do to repair it. It moves by several minutes with temperature shifts...) --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson p.s.: I would also think the networks could suspend their "tape" delay for the New Year. How many people trust television and would be shocked to

Re: [LEAPSECS] the leap second in the media

2009-01-04 Thread John Hawkinson
e finished when adjtime() is called again. --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

Re: [LEAPSECS] leap second media coverage

2008-11-24 Thread John Hawkinson
hical > distinctions about whether a representational frame shift actually > corresponds to an "event". Well, we need not ask, "if a clock reads 23:59:60 in a forrest..." since we do have strong confidence that people are watching :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Hawkinson _

Re: [LEAPSECS] ATT drops time

2007-08-30 Thread John Hawkinson
27;t tend to get daylight saving changes instantly either... [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Hawkinson ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs