[LEAPSECS] leap second festivities?

[Peter Vince]

Hi Mark, et al,

     No, not just in the southern hemisphere!  I was also monitoring Tom's
"nixie" clock:

          http://www.leapsecond.com/java/nixie.htm

on my MacBook Pro running OSX 10.9.5, in the current Safari (vs. 7.1.6)
browser.  As Mark says - it started counting backwards after 00:00 UTC,
including a "60" count every minute.  I only let that run for a few minutes
before reloading the page, whereupon everything was fine again.

     I also monitored:

          http://www.time.gov         (Official US TIme)

          http://time.gov/widget/     (NIST Time widget)

and both correctly showed the "60" count.

     I also have a Garmin etrex Vista HCX hand-held GPS satnav device, and
that counted through as normal (59..00..01), but corrected itself fairly
soon afterwards.  (Sorry, can't be precise, as I had one pair of eyes, and
five things I was trying to watch!)

I also have an oldish Junghans MEGA DCF-locked alarm clock - that, too,
ticked through as normal, and just corrected itself at the next hourly
re-synchronisation.

I was in Portugal at the time, which is currently using DST and so one hour
ahead of UTC (just like the UK).  I was pleased to see no discrepancies at
local midnight, and the above observations at 01:00 local.

     Regards,

          Peter




On 1 July 2015 at 01:10, Mark Calabretta <mark at calabretta.id.au> wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> Your nixie clock got to 23:59:60 and then started counting backwards!
> It still is, and it counts backwards through 60 in the seconds field,
> skipping 01 - currently at 2015.06.30 23:49:60.  See the video clip I
> sent you last time.  Maybe it's a southern hemisphere thing.
>
> Regards,
> Mark
>
>
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