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

Richard B. Langley lang at unb.ca
Fri Jan 2 11:34:49 EST 2009


BBC's 7 pips went off o.k. too <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Time_Signal> They
were broadcast on Radio 5 Live. You can replay them here:
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g4dsd> about 2/3 of the way through the program. The
main radio networks (1 through 4) only carried Big Ben.

Quoting "Richard B. Langley" <lang at unb.ca>:


> 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/

> >

> > --

> > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20

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> > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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Richard B. Langley E-mail: lang at unb.ca
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Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142
University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943
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