Late, just saw the posting on BlueSky: In the wake of NTP inventor Dave Mills' death, probably the next ranking topchimer is NIST's Judah Levine, and the New York Times interviewed him about why we have leap years, which makes sense; all the other news outlets had to make do with lower-ranking (and less well spoken) "time experts" (I'm lookin' at you, NPR...) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/science/leap-day-easter.html Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
Here's a link to the full article for anyone that's not a sub to NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/science/leap-day-easter.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZU0.5Thd.N-PiRNtpSr2c&smid=url-share On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 12:39 AM Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
Late, just saw the posting on BlueSky:
In the wake of NTP inventor Dave Mills' death, probably the next ranking topchimer is NIST's Judah Levine, and the New York Times interviewed him about why we have leap years, which makes sense; all the other news outlets had to make do with lower-ranking (and less well spoken) "time experts" (I'm lookin' at you, NPR...)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/science/leap-day-easter.html
Cheers, -- jra
-- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
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Good article, enjoyable read. Most interesting tidbit: that UTC and Atomic time disagree by 34 seconds. michael brooks Sr. Network Engineer Adams 12 Five Star Schools michael.brooks@adams12.org :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: "flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss" On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 10:39 PM Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
Late, just saw the posting on BlueSky:
In the wake of NTP inventor Dave Mills' death, probably the next ranking topchimer is NIST's Judah Levine, and the New York Times interviewed him about why we have leap years, which makes sense; all the other news outlets had to make do with lower-ranking (and less well spoken) "time experts" (I'm lookin' at you, NPR...)
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/science/leap-...
Cheers, -- jra
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