Re: [time-nuts] This list

2005-07-19 Thread Joseph Gray
Re the Rolex -- I feel compelled to let the list know that all the servers at febo.com run ntp, and look to my (at the moment) two stratum 1 servers -- one gets its time from a Z3801A GPSDO, while the other uses both a Z3801A and a Spectracom WWVB receiver. I just checked, and the mailserver mach

Re: [time-nuts] This list

2005-07-19 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Joseph Gray wrote: > I have noticed that this list seems to send emails out of sequence. I > have seen other instances of this, but the two messages I just sent in > response to the HP 5060A query arrived in reverse order and show time > stamps 30 minutes apart. I sent my replies to the list about

Re: [time-nuts] Datum 1000B 10 MHz Oscillator pinouts for the DB-9 connector?

2005-07-19 Thread Bjorn Gabrielsson
We had a thread about FTS-1200 a few weeks ago. The old FTS 1000 series includes the models 1000A, 1200, 1002A and 1003A. In case they preserved the pinout to the 1000B, you might try #1 GND, #2 EFC, #3,4 NC, #5 GND, #6 Oven monitor, #7 NC, #8 22-30VDC, #9 NC. -- Björn Brooke Clarke <[E

[time-nuts] Datum 1000B 10 MHz Oscillator pinouts for the DB-9 connector?

2005-07-19 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi: I'm working on selling my FTS4060/S24 that was broken by the shipper and would like to know the pin outs for the Datum 1000B 10 MHz crystal oscillator, since it's working. It's frequency can be controlled by using the manual scan control voltage increase/decrease toggle switch. Thanks,

Re: [time-nuts] Micro Phase Stepper: Thank you!

2005-07-19 Thread buehl
Quoting Ulrich Bangert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Folks, > > thank you very much for your kind explanation and hints regarding micro > I imagine very well how a dac driven constant current source sourcing or > sinking a small capacitor in conjunction with a comparator may give a > variable slope

[time-nuts] Micro Phase Stepper: Thank you!

2005-07-19 Thread Ulrich Bangert
Hi Folks, thank you very much for your kind explanation and hints regarding micro phase steppers. I have not been aware of the 'linear ramp method' for that purpose. I have seen linear ramps to be used in sub-clock interpolation schemes in time-to-digital-converters as well as in a certain kind of

Re: [time-nuts] This list

2005-07-19 Thread David Kirkby
Joseph Gray wrote: I have noticed that this list seems to send emails out of sequence. I have seen other instances of this, but the two messages I just sent in response to the HP 5060A query arrived in reverse order and show time stamps 30 minutes apart. I sent my replies to the list about one

Re: [time-nuts] Re: UTC - A Cautionary Tale

2005-07-19 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Chris O'Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > >Yes. Leap seconds are absurd enough, leap hours are 3,600 times more : > >absurd! : > : > You forgot to extrapolate that statement to leap days. : : Leap days are extrapolatable for the next 1,000 years

Re: [time-nuts] Re: UTC - A Cautionary Tale

2005-07-19 Thread Mike S
At 08:48 AM 7/19/2005, Chris O'Byrne wrote... >Now, can you come up with a scenario extolling the virtues to the >average person of leap seconds? Or a scenario in which an >ever-so-slightly variable second being used by a member of the public >proves disasterous? Your scenario has nothing to do wi

[time-nuts] Re: UTC - A Cautionary Tale

2005-07-19 Thread Chris O'Byrne
Mike, Since you have asked me to extrapolate the leap second question to leap days, allow me to do the same. Would you settle for a system whereby you had to wait on some scientists' verdict before finding out if your next birthday was going to be on a Sunday or on a Monday? > It wasn't clear you

Re: [time-nuts] Re: UTC - A Cautionary Tale

2005-07-19 Thread Mike S
At 05:56 AM 7/19/2005, Chris O'Byrne wrote... >The rules are those of "simple arithmetic". You are not allowed to use >lookup tables, and you are not allowed to use quadratic equations. You >are in a hotel, without access to your normal sources of reference, >without access to a calculator, sittin

[time-nuts] Re: UTC - A Cautionary Tale

2005-07-19 Thread Chris O'Byrne
Those of you on the LEAPSECS mailing list will aready have seen this, but I think its worth a read - http://www.startribune.com/stories/404/5508732.html I'm responding to Rob and Mike in this email. First, Rob said > And if your software reports eclipses later than 2007, it may need to > be up

Re: [time-nuts] Re: UTC - A Cautionary Tale

2005-07-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >: 2005-07-18T12:34:56Z (UTC) >: 2005-07-18T12:35:28A (TAI - same instant) >: >: Multiple timescales will always exist. We should acknowledge that >: fact and move on. > >The reason that 'Z' is used for UTC is that A-X are used