Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Leap second...

2017-01-03 Thread David Forbes
Terry, I use the rubidium clock as a frequency source, not a time reference. It tells me how well adjusted are the Nixie watches that I run for a few days before shipping to customers. This was the first time in over five years that I even bothered to set the atomic clock's display to within a

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Leap second...

2017-01-03 Thread 'Terry S' via neonixie-l
You had to adjust the worlds' most accurate clock? That thing should just KNOW about leap seconds. On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 1:35:25 PM UTC-6, nixiebunny wrote: > > Terry, > > I knew that none of my clocks that I made would do anything interesting > with it, > since none of them have cale

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Leap second...

2017-01-03 Thread Michail1 via neonixie-l
I got all excited to record the event on my MOD-6. I even turned off the date cycling every minute. I even setup with my phone to record it. Shit! I forgot to turn off the temperature from cycling. :( https://youtu.be/NTHKUs3KRsA Michail Wilson 206-920-6312 In a message dated 1/3/

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Leap second...

2017-01-03 Thread David Forbes
Terry, I knew that none of my clocks that I made would do anything interesting with it, since none of them have calendars, so I watched the time.gov clock page and shot a short phone video of the leap second happening. It's a bit weird to watch. I did have to adjust my rubidium Nixie clock af

[neonixie-l] Re: Leap second...

2017-01-03 Thread 'Terry S' via neonixie-l
Ok, I'll admit I tried to spot the lead-second. It didn't work. My WWVB based nixie clock isn't even capable of displaying "60" in the seconds field, so I knew that clock wouldn't show it. However, right next to it I keep an Oregon Scientific WWVB clock. That clock didn't show the leap second,

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Leap second...

2017-01-01 Thread Tom Van Baak
> From: "'Terry S' via neonixie-l" > Date: December 31, 2016 at 8:22:17 AM PST > > Interesting read: http://www.leapsecond.com/notes/leap-watch.htm > > Terry See also: http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/CD47/ /tvb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neo

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Leap second...

2016-12-31 Thread 'Terry S' via neonixie-l
t why. > > > > *From:* neoni...@googlegroups.com [mailto: > neoni...@googlegroups.com ] *On Behalf Of *Nicholas Stock > *Sent:* Sunday, 1 January 2017 2:19 AM > *To:* neoni...@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Leap second... > > > > Y2K all over ag

RE: [neonixie-l] Re: Leap second...

2016-12-31 Thread Scott McInness
. Have a read of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second if you want to know more about why. From: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com [mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicholas Stock Sent: Sunday, 1 January 2017 2:19 AM To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Re

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Leap second...

2016-12-31 Thread Nicholas Stock
Y2K all over again!! If I can stay up I'll try and keep an eye on mine. Happy New Year Folks! On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 7:41 AM, H. Carl Ott wrote: > I'm not 100% sure, and I wrote the code. lol, > > But really. > > We convert the time info in the GPS NMEA sentence to a 32 bit elapsed > seco

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Leap second...

2016-12-31 Thread H. Carl Ott
I'm not 100% sure, and I wrote the code. lol, But really. We convert the time info in the GPS NMEA sentence to a 32 bit elapsed seconds count from an epoch date. This is what gets transmitted via the RPTR radio link. So. Dec 31, 23:59:60 Jan 1, 00:00:00 Should both display the same (as Jan

[neonixie-l] Re: Leap second...

2016-12-31 Thread Jon D.
Does anyone know how the MOD-SIX_7971 will display this extra second? Jon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.

[neonixie-l] Re: Leap second...

2016-12-31 Thread 'Terry S' via neonixie-l
I wonder how my WWVB based clocks will handle that? Might have to stay up and watch. Terry On Friday, December 30, 2016 at 9:35:10 PM UTC-6, Nick wrote: > > A chance to record 23:59:60 on your nixie clock this New Year's Eve as a > leap second is being added - only the 27th ever... > > Nick >

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: leap second nixie

2015-07-03 Thread Tom Van Baak
: July 3, 2015 at 11:17:48 AM PDT To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Re: leap second nixie Reply-To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com The photo of the 7011 being held in your hand is priceless; really shows the true size of this beast. Can you post one of you holding the CD47

[neonixie-l] Re: leap second nixie

2015-07-03 Thread Greg P
Love the anode mesh.. Looks like it was cut out of window screen material. On Friday, July 3, 2015 at 10:17:50 AM UTC-4, Tom Van Baak wrote: > > Hi Nick, > > I put some photos of that Burroughs B-7011 tube here: > > http://leapsecond.com/pages/B7011/ > > /tvb > > - Original Message

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: leap second nixie

2015-07-03 Thread gregebert
The photo of the 7011 being held in your hand is priceless; really shows the true size of this beast. Can you post one of you holding the CD47 ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving ema

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: leap second nixie

2015-07-03 Thread Nicholas Stock
Thanks Tom! Hope Dalibor sees this...;-) Cheers, Nick On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Tom Van Baak wrote: > Hi Nick, > > I put some photos of that Burroughs B-7011 tube here: > > http://leapsecond.com/pages/B7011/ > > /tvb > > - Original Message - > > From: Nicholas Stock > Date: June

[neonixie-l] Re: leap second nixie

2015-07-03 Thread Tom Van Baak
Hi Nick, I put some photos of that Burroughs B-7011 tube here: http://leapsecond.com/pages/B7011/ /tvb - Original Message - From: Nicholas Stock Date: June 30, 2015 at 7:43:10 PM PDT To: "neonixie-l@googlegroups.com" Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] leap second nixie Reply-To: neonixie-l@go