[time-nuts] Radio clock fails to leap
Steve Rooke
sar10538 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 1 02:00:26 UTC 2009
Tom,
2009/1/1 Tom Van Baak <tvb at leapsecond.com>:
>> My low-end Radio Shack 'atomic clock' did not handle the leap second.
>
> Scott,
>
> I'm not sure if any of the low-cost radio clocks handle leap
> seconds correctly. Clearly the analog clocks can't (there is
> no way to show the 61st second with clock hands). But even
> the digital ones that could, don't.
Surely you mean the 60th second as the convention is to start counting
seconds from 0 :-)
73, Steve (been reading too many of Bruce's postings) Rooke
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