[LEAPSECS] any other parties?

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Tue Jul 10 19:29:27 EDT 2012


On Sun 2012-07-08T08:24:35 -0700, Steve Allen hath writ:

> I did not hold a leap second party, but Skip did.

> http://www.the-signal.com/section/36/article/69087/


Here's an edited video of the party.

http://youtu.be/CaOpGrs0x_U

The time nuts should note how the different clocks indicated the leap.

The two Spectracom units which showed :60 are WWVB receivers lock on
using carrier phase which was only possible because NIST temporarily
stopped their new binary phase-shift keying.
sic transit gloria tempore

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