After watching Blade Runner (the director cut) reposition on a TV
channel, that ended just one minute before 2am local time, I watched my
nixie clock to, as I was expecting, held 02:00:00 (local time) by two
seconds. Surely its GPS (an M12T) sent the right time to the uC,
23:59:60 UTC... but I'
Well, the list isn't called Time Nuts for nothing.
Mike
On 7/1/2012 11:05 AM, Edgardo Molina wrote:
I was dinning at an Argentinean restaurant with my wife and some
friends of her.
Armed with a 3G Internet equipped iPad and sharing the story with the
people at the table. Good food, good comp
On 01/07/2012 01:07, Mark Sims wrote:
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Shopping.
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Hi,
From: "Brendan Minish"
Dealing with servers and this issue
Mine worked OK. But, to avoid the next we could
make a habit of sneezing toward West!
Bye,
Jean-Louis
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Well, one of my reference standards - and the most expensive - worked
through the leap second thus:-
58
59
00
01
02
etc.
To be fair though, it predates the Leap Second by a few years and
there are no applicable firmware updates. For those who are
interested, it was manufactured by Wm. Thompson o
I made the most of it by grabbed the HV terminal on a power right at Leapsecond
and in that moment watched my whole life pass before me.
Thomas Knox
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> To: time-nuts@febo.com
> Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:05:55 -0500
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] So, how did yo
I was dinning at an Argentinean restaurant with my wife and some
friends of her.
Armed with a 3G Internet equipped iPad and sharing the story with the
people at the table. Good food, good company and the opportunity to
shine publicly (at least for a leap second), explaining time keeping
t
We spent our leapsecond reading books by kerosene lamp as the
power failure continued...
And, no, the power failure wasn't caused by the leapsecond, but
rather a very strong thunderstorm that came roaring through parts
of Maryland trees down everywhere.
... Well, unless Mother Nature is yet
Watched on my Thunderbolt's external monitor:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y5951au8lukljot/LeapSecond20120630.3gp
Mike Blazer
On 6/30/2012 7:07 PM, Mark Sims wrote:
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Sweating without power, trying to keep a 1942 generator running enough
to keep the fridge running (required a mid day magneto tear down)...
In between dips in a kiddie pool and 'saving' beers from getting too
hot of course..
Brent
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I spent it taking screengrabs of Twitter:
http://phk.freebsd.dk/hacks/leap_20120630/index.html
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Quote from an unidentified admin:
Posted: Yesterday 10:35:14 PM
im rebooting a couple hundred linux servers right now, it caught us by
surprise and boofed our production environment tonight. i walk in from a
road trip across texas (carbine class) and in my door my phone starts
ringing. well fe
Via the internet from Chile I confirmed my own Datum time server doesn't
actually support leap seconds (as expected.)
Over dinner two of my colleagues asked me when I am going to adjust my time
server to account for the leap second and then proceeded to accuse me of having
plans for domination
I was invited to dinner with friends, so I took some stuff with me. Before
dinner, I explained the concept of "leap second" to the hosts' 8-year old
daughter. She understood leap years already, and I think she understood
the leap second explanation too.
As the appointed time (8 PM here, in EDT l
Dealing with servers and this issue
http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-today
On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 00:07 +, Mark Sims wrote:
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Damn, If I'd known I could spend them I'd have logged a few more:-)
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