[time-nuts] Leap second going...

[EB4APL]

I also saw (and captured a video sequence) of the leap second in 
NTGS50AA via LH, what a difference from my first encounter with the leap 
second!.
I was working in the frequency timing subsystem of a  Deep Space 
Tracking Facility when NASA decided to introduce the leap seconds, I 
don't remember it exactly but maybe we were using GMT  because until 
then, we used to offset our Cs and Rb frequency at the beginning of each 
year (did you notice the thumbwheels inside these standards?). Our first 
leap second was in Dec 31 and being this night so special the operations 
crews were given permission to leave since no any tracking activity were 
planned.   I was in a party and received a call to go to the station to 
manually introduce the leap second on the system.  Our frequency and 
timing subsystem predated the leap seconds several years so I had to set 
our redundant clock 1 second late and make a changeover between second 
00 and 01 so the second 00 was 2 seconds long.  Good old times ...

Best regards,
Ignacio, EB4APL


On 01/07/2012 2:07, Dan Rae wrote:
> Just to say it did work with LH:
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