Thanks Tom,
Someone wrote right back and explained that
to me. I assumed it was a Java app because the
directory "java" was in the path. I never even
bothered to try "view source", thinking it might
have been protected (via php for example) if it
was a commercial product. Nice job on the pro
Hi Jim,
The nixie tube leap second countdown clock at
http://www.leapsecond.com/java/nixie.htm
is actually written in javascript so all you have
to do is use your browser "view source" button
to have a look at the source code; free for all.
/tvb
http://www.leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm
- O
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes:
>But note that this includes millions of amateur astronomers as well.
>If you haven't looked recently at commercially available amateur
>telescopes, they are paragons of civil time handling.
I know. I upgraded my old 4" Newtonian to an ETX1
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jack Hudler" writes:
If they can tell the difference, why do they use the word "time"
when they keep telling us that "everybody" needs earth rotational
orientation ?
Poul-Henning
>It's not that we can't tell the difference; we just can't forecast the
>difference.
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike S writes
:
>At 08:27 AM 7/14/2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote...
>
>>I find it surreal that astronomers cannot tell the difference
>>between precision time and the Earth rotational orientation.
>
>But then again, you've demonstrated yourself to be an idiot incapabl
Rob Seaman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> John Ackermann says:
>
>> By the way -- Rob's message was held as a non-member submission
>> which I approved. Unless he's subscribed to the list in the
>> meantime, he won't see any responses unless you separately cc him.
>
>
> Thanks for approving the message - it
Hi Tom,
Works just fine in both IE ver. 5.5 SP2 and
in Firefox ver. 1.0. However, in both browsers
the application eventually stops, with a little
window popping up saying that the demo mode is
over and I need to refresh the window in order
for the app to continue. Are you selling this
applic
Hi,
John Ackermann says:
By the way -- Rob's message was held as a non-member submission
which I approved. Unless he's subscribed to the list in the
meantime, he won't see any responses unless you separately cc him.
Thanks for approving the message - it wasn't clear from the list's
web
Brooke,
True. However, the timescale in which Leap Hours are interesting is
also that in which 5 digit years are required, so those problems can
both be fixed by the COBOL programmers in the late 9990s. [humor]
GPS time is not a thing that astronomers want to use in the long run,
although th
Hi David:
My concern is that if the time between leaps gets to be long then there
will be another Y2K type problem. I.e. programmers will ignore the Leap
Hour, figuring that they will be dead when it occurs, and when it does
there will be many broken programs.
The GPS time scale does not ha
David Forbes wrote:
A modest proposal:
Instead of adding randomly-placed leap seconds to UTC or allowing UTC to
drift from UT1 etc, the timing community should just change the second's
definition from time to time as needed. That is, dither the Cs
transition frequency between 9,192,631,770 Hz
At 11:13 PM -0700 7/13/05, Rob Seaman wrote:
Howdy,
This is a little missive from an astronomer on the delicate
subject of the divergence of UTC from UTx. It seems that those
bastards in the precision timing community want to abandon UTC's
leap seconds entirely because they are too much trou
It's not that we can't tell the difference; we just can't forecast the
difference.
-Original Message-
I find it surreal that astronomers cannot tell the difference
between precision time and the Earth rotational orientation.
--
Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
[EMAIL
I've long been disappointed that I can't set my PC clock display (in the corner
of the screen) to MJD. I'll save TVB's link for a (relatively) quick MJD clock.
-RL
--
Robert Lutwak, Senior Scientist
Symmetricom - Technology Realization Center
34 Tozer Rd.
Beverly, MA 01915
All --
I'm not (yet) prepared to moderate messages or ban anyone from the list,
but I'd like everyone to remember that this is intended to be a high
signal-to-noise ratio place for people to seriously discuss a shared
passion in time and frequency measurement. A lot of the folks who
contribute t
At 08:27 AM 7/14/2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote...
>I find it surreal that astronomers cannot tell the difference
>between precision time and the Earth rotational orientation.
But then again, you've demonstrated yourself to be an idiot incapable of
rational argument. What is surreal is that peopl
By the way -- Rob's message was held as a non-member submission which I
approved. Unless he's subscribed to the list in the meantime, he won't
see any responses unless you separately cc him.
John
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes:
>
>
>
>>I find
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes:
>I find it surreal that it is the precision timing community who are
>arguing that the public have no need for access to precision time.
Normal people need (precision) time.
Astronomers need Earth rotational orientation.
I find it surreal tha
Howdy,
This is a little missive from an astronomer on the delicate subject
of the divergence of UTC from UTx. It seems that those bastards in
the precision timing community want to abandon UTC's leap seconds
entirely because they are too much trouble, and he's hopping mad.
Note that my me
Has any of the timesignals (GPS, WWV, MSF, DCF etc) started announcing
the leap second yet ?
--
Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be
Very cool, Tom. It works fine on Firefox/Linux here.
John
Tom Van Baak wrote:
>So, after a 7 year delay my
>nixie tube Leap Second countdown clock
>is back in action. Check out:
>
>http://www.leapsecond.com/java/nixie.htm
>
>If the page doesn't display properly with your
>web browser pleas
Most of the world's atomic clocks are employed as frequency standards. In
addition to the telecom applications, they are used in positioning and
navigation, precision measurement, and, yes, a few for timekeeping. Those
who care for time to be synchronized with the sunrise are relatively small
> Instead of adding randomly-placed leap seconds to UTC or allowing UTC
> to drift from UT1 etc, the timing community should just change the
> second's definition from time to time as needed. That is, dither the
Bad idea. Here's the math. An average of one
leap second a year is equivalent to a
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Forbes writes:
>At 8:25 AM +0200 7/14/05, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Forbes writes:
>>>A modest proposal:
>>>
>>>Instead of adding randomly-placed leap seconds to UTC or allowing UTC
>>>to drift from UT1 etc, the timing com
At 8:25 AM +0200 7/14/05, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Forbes writes:
A modest proposal:
Instead of adding randomly-placed leap seconds to UTC or allowing UTC
to drift from UT1 etc, the timing community should just change the
second's definition from time to ti
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