Kaushik Patowary
Jul 8, 2021
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Some years seem longer than others, especially when you are passing through a bad phase in life such as being stuck at home because a pandemic is playing havoc around, but officially the longest year on record was 1972. It was longer than the average year by a whole two seconds. The two extra seconds were leap seconds added on June 30 and again on December 31 the same year.
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What are leap seconds?
From time to time, leap seconds are added to clocks on Earth to accurately reflect the observed solar time. This is due to the fact that the Earth’s rotation around the axis and its revolution around the sun is imprecise and varies from year to year.
Accompanying Specifications for FPGA, SCA and C++ Platforms Available Soon WASHINGTON, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Wireless Innovation Forum (WInnForum) recently announced the approval
This column originally published online on March 1, 2021.
Q: What would it take to move the little chunk of far West Texas where I live out of the Mountain Time Zone and into the Central Time Zone like the rest of the state?
Tim Holt, El Paso
A: This deceptively mundane inquiry proved to be much more stimulative than it appeared on first read. In sitting down to think about exactly how to address it, the Texanist initially wondered how long the furthest reaches of West Texas have resided in a different time zone than the rest of Texas. And that got him to thinking about time zones in general, which got him to thinking about the keeping of time in general. And about the longitudinal divisions of the earth, and the four-dimensional space-time continuum, and Zeno’s paradoxes and other heady matters. And, well, before you knew it, there the Texanist was, tumbling headlong down a deep, deep rabbit hole of internet research the likes of which he hasn’t seen since formulating a reply
New Wireless Innovation Forum Specification Enables Radio Platforms to Provide Radio Applications with Knowledge of Time
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Wireless Innovation Forum (WInnForum) today announced the approval of a Time Facility specification (WINNF-TS-3004) and supporting Facilities Principles report (WINNF-TR-2007). The specification is an internationally supported application programming interface (API) that harmonizes views across users of the legacy Joint Tactical Networking Center (JTNC) Timing Service API, improving previous specifications coverage and quality, and extending functional coverage. This exciting specification noticeably improves currently available standards for time handling within software defined radios, said Eric Nicollet of Thales, Co-chair of the WInnForum Software Defined Systems Committee and leader of the Time Service Facility development team. It will bring more porta