[LEAPSECS] Lets get REAL about time.

[Tony Finch]

Mark Calabretta <mcalabre at atnf.csiro.au> wrote:

>

> There are two basic types of analogue clock display.  One where the

> second hand steps around the dial from second to second (thus

> disawowing sub-second timekeeping), and the other where it moves

> smoothly and continuously.  It is interesting to contemplate how a

> leap second would appear on each were it to be implemented.


There's also the railway clock genre, where each clock's second hand ticks
or sweeps slightly fast, and the clock waits at the top of the minute for
a synchronization pulse. Handles leap seconds easily, if the master clock
does :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvIvKiDWDks

Tony.
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