There are 1,209,600 seconds in a fortnight (14days/fortnight x 24 hours/day x 60 min/hour x 60 seconds/min) so the implied error is a bit less than 1PPM. Dave "Experience keeps a dear school ..but a fool learns in no other" ..Ben Franklin On 7/13/2012 8:09 AM, Steve wrote: > But what if a leap second occurs during the fortnight the standard is being set? ;) > > Steve > > > > On Jul 13, 2012, at 7:22 AM, "Poul-Henning Kamp"<phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > >> In message<4FFFEBEC.8030802@embarqmail.com>, Artekmedia writes: >> >> Yes, I'd expect the last non-metric country in the world to go for that :-) >> >>> Coulombs per fortnight to be sure :-) >>> >>> On 7/13/2012 2:40 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>>> In message<CAE6XXrjKES2=BPCNyzOcbXFM73+4ztOTAkUEcTTaqTsDuvrJGw@mail.gmail.com> >>>> , Will writes: >>>> >>>>> No practical quantum Ampere so far? >>>> It has always surprised me that the Ampere was not defined in terms of >>>> electron charges per second... >>>> >>> -- >>> Dave& Lynn Henderson >>> Manuals@ArtekMedia.com >>> www.Artekmedia.com >>> PO Box 175 >>> Welch,MN 55089 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com >>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts >>> and follow the instructions there. >>> >> -- >> Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >> phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >> FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ > volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Dave& Lynn Henderson Manuals@ArtekMedia.com www.Artekmedia.com PO Box 175 Welch,MN 55089

Actually it is pretty easy to avoid leap seconds as they are usually introduced on June 30 or Dec 31 and only 25 leap seconds have been introduced in the last 40 years, the most recent one on June 30th, 2012...given that figure, the implied error due to leap seconds is much much less than the simple example below. Dave Now my head is beginning to hurt as I ponder the reasons why man exists and the statistical probability of sentiment life in the rest of the universe. I am now going to find a beer and kill off a few of my 1.2 x 10^11 brain cells..hopefully I will get the ones that care about this stuff at all. On 7/13/2012 10:49 AM, Artekmedia wrote: > There are 1,209,600 seconds in a fortnight (14days/fortnight x 24 > hours/day x 60 min/hour x 60 seconds/min) so the implied error is a > bit less than 1PPM. > > > Dave > > "Experience keeps a dear school ..but a fool learns in no other" ..Ben > Franklin > > > On 7/13/2012 8:09 AM, Steve wrote: >> But what if a leap second occurs during the fortnight the standard is >> being set? ;) >> >> Steve >> >> >> >> On Jul 13, 2012, at 7:22 AM, "Poul-Henning Kamp"<phk@phk.freebsd.dk> >> wrote: >> >>> In message<4FFFEBEC.8030802@embarqmail.com>, Artekmedia writes: >>> >>> Yes, I'd expect the last non-metric country in the world to go for >>> that :-) >>> >>>> Coulombs per fortnight to be sure :-) >>>> >>>> On 7/13/2012 2:40 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>>>> In >>>>> message<CAE6XXrjKES2=BPCNyzOcbXFM73+4ztOTAkUEcTTaqTsDuvrJGw@mail.gmail.com> >>>>> , Will writes: >>>>> >>>>>> No practical quantum Ampere so far? >>>>> It has always surprised me that the Ampere was not defined in >>>>> terms of >>>>> electron charges per second... >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dave& Lynn Henderson >>>> Manuals@ArtekMedia.com >>>> www.Artekmedia.com >>>> PO Box 175 >>>> Welch,MN 55089 >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com >>>> To unsubscribe, go to >>>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts >>>> and follow the instructions there. >>>> >>> -- >>> Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >>> phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >>> FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >>> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by >>> incompetence. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com >>> To unsubscribe, go to >>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts >>> and follow the instructions there. >> _______________________________________________ >> volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > -- Dave& Lynn Henderson Manuals@ArtekMedia.com www.Artekmedia.com PO Box 175 Welch,MN 55089

I wouldn't lose any sleep over it, but maybe I'm not "nutty" enough for the current discussion :-o Steve On Jul 13, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Artekmedia <henderson47@embarqmail.com> wrote: > There are 1,209,600 seconds in a fortnight (14days/fortnight x 24 hours/day x 60 min/hour x 60 seconds/min) so the implied error is a bit less than 1PPM. > > > Dave > > "Experience keeps a dear school ..but a fool learns in no other" ..Ben Franklin > > > On 7/13/2012 8:09 AM, Steve wrote: >> But what if a leap second occurs during the fortnight the standard is being set? ;) >> >> Steve >> >> >> >> On Jul 13, 2012, at 7:22 AM, "Poul-Henning Kamp"<phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: >> >>> In message<4FFFEBEC.8030802@embarqmail.com>, Artekmedia writes: >>> >>> Yes, I'd expect the last non-metric country in the world to go for that :-) >>> >>>> Coulombs per fortnight to be sure :-) >>>> >>>> On 7/13/2012 2:40 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>>>> In message<CAE6XXrjKES2=BPCNyzOcbXFM73+4ztOTAkUEcTTaqTsDuvrJGw@mail.gmail.com> >>>>> , Will writes: >>>>> >>>>>> No practical quantum Ampere so far? >>>>> It has always surprised me that the Ampere was not defined in terms of >>>>> electron charges per second... >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dave& Lynn Henderson >>>> Manuals@ArtekMedia.com >>>> www.Artekmedia.com >>>> PO Box 175 >>>> Welch,MN 55089 >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com >>>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts >>>> and follow the instructions there. >>>> >>> -- >>> Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >>> phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >>> FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >>> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com >>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts >>> and follow the instructions there. >> _______________________________________________ >> volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > > -- > Dave& Lynn Henderson > Manuals@ArtekMedia.com > www.Artekmedia.com > PO Box 175 > Welch,MN 55089 > > _______________________________________________ > volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts > and follow the instructions there.

I avoided the effects of the most recent one by sneezing at exactly the right time. Not a popular thing to do at the dinner table but when ya gotta sneeze, ya gotta sneeze! Dave, if we didn't exist who would drink the beer??? Steve On Jul 13, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Artekmedia <henderson47@embarqmail.com> wrote: > Actually it is pretty easy to avoid leap seconds as they are usually introduced on June 30 or Dec 31 and only 25 leap seconds have been introduced in the last 40 years, the most recent one on June 30th, 2012...given that figure, the implied error due to leap seconds is much much less than the simple example below. > > Dave > Now my head is beginning to hurt as I ponder the reasons why man exists and the statistical probability of sentiment life in the rest of the universe. I am now going to find a beer and kill off a few of my 1.2 x 10^11 brain cells..hopefully I will get the ones that care about this stuff at all. > > > On 7/13/2012 10:49 AM, Artekmedia wrote: >> There are 1,209,600 seconds in a fortnight (14days/fortnight x 24 hours/day x 60 min/hour x 60 seconds/min) so the implied error is a bit less than 1PPM. >> >> >> Dave >> >> "Experience keeps a dear school ..but a fool learns in no other" ..Ben Franklin >> >> >> On 7/13/2012 8:09 AM, Steve wrote: >>> But what if a leap second occurs during the fortnight the standard is being set? ;) >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jul 13, 2012, at 7:22 AM, "Poul-Henning Kamp"<phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: >>> >>>> In message<4FFFEBEC.8030802@embarqmail.com>, Artekmedia writes: >>>> >>>> Yes, I'd expect the last non-metric country in the world to go for that :-) >>>> >>>>> Coulombs per fortnight to be sure :-) >>>>> >>>>> On 7/13/2012 2:40 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>>>>> In message<CAE6XXrjKES2=BPCNyzOcbXFM73+4ztOTAkUEcTTaqTsDuvrJGw@mail.gmail.com> >>>>>> , Will writes: >>>>>> >>>>>>> No practical quantum Ampere so far? >>>>>> It has always surprised me that the Ampere was not defined in terms of >>>>>> electron charges per second... >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Dave& Lynn Henderson >>>>> Manuals@ArtekMedia.com >>>>> www.Artekmedia.com >>>>> PO Box 175 >>>>> Welch,MN 55089 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com >>>>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts >>>>> and follow the instructions there. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >>>> phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >>>> FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >>>> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com >>>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts >>>> and follow the instructions there. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com >>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts >>> and follow the instructions there. >>> >> > > -- > Dave& Lynn Henderson > Manuals@ArtekMedia.com > www.Artekmedia.com > PO Box 175 > Welch,MN 55089 > > _______________________________________________ > volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts > and follow the instructions there.