[time-nuts] TEC party file format?
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Thu Jun 30 08:51:46 UTC 2011
tvb at LeapSecond.com said:
> Realize this is all just for fun. TEC should have zero impact on modern
> computer networks.
It will be interesting to see how much gear there is out there that derives
time keeping from the line frequency.
I suspect a lot of it doesn't matter much at the second/minute level. (Who
cares if the sprinkler goes on at 6:00 or 6:02?) I suspect there is an
assumption that they have to get reset occasionally, maybe on DST changes or
when power fail or ...
> The last system I worked with that relied on 60 Hz power
> for timekeeping was a 70's PDP 11/34.
IBM 360s bumped a slot in low memory on each cycle. There was a switch
someplace to select bumping by 5 on 60 Hz systems and 6 on 50 Hz. The net
result was incrementing by 300 counts per second.
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