[LEAPSECS] DCF77, HBG, MSF, two out of three

Richard B. Langley lang at unb.ca
Thu Jan 1 11:19:33 EST 2009


CHU got it right this time. Last time there was a change in the DUT1 value effective 1
January in addition to the leap second. The notice from IERS was sent late and the
people responsible for inputting the new DUT1 value were already on their Christmas/New
Year break when it arrived.

Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>:


>

> DCF77 got right, as always.

>

> HBG also got it right this time.

>

> MSF still fumbles the DUT1 bits.

>

> http://phk.freebsd.dk/Leap/20081231/

>

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