[time-nuts] How are you going to spend your extra second?

[Jim Palfreyman]

I have a "speaking clock" from Australia in my possession and it handles the
leap second. I plan to photograph its display.

2008/12/29 Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>

> Poul-Henning Kamp skrev:
> > In message <4958746C.9040701 at erols.com>, Chuck Harris writes:
> >> Jim Palfreyman wrote:
> >>> I suppose it's "nuts" is it to want to live in a society where there a
> very
> >>> few guns available, where ordinary people don't carry them and people
> can't
> >>> be shot and killed in a quick fit of anger over something trivial.
> >> It's nuts to believe that criminals are going to stop using guns
> >> just because you have banned them from the law abiding people.
> >
> > Can we can the gun-talk on the *time-nuts* list please ?
> >
>
> I was just contacted by an artist that wants to capture the leap-second
> for a project she does. I think it very well matches the topic of this
> thread.
>
> It brings on the discussion on how to best observe the leap-second.
>
> For her part, getting the 23:59:60 reading would be the ideal. I came to
> realize that few computer clocks would report that even with propper NTP.
>
> So, ideas, knowledge, update since the last leap-second?
>
> I would sure like to see it in various forms. I would like to have a
> computer (UNIX/LINUX) clock that provides propper UTC...
>
> I would not mind seeing it popping out of my GPS clocks either.
>
> I don't think I will have DCF77, MSF or LORAN-C capability on new years
> eve, otherwise those should be possible to receive here too.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
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