Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Getting timing from line cycles (was Re: Sidereal Time Clock)
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.171840.387@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2137@otc.otca.oz> <13650001@hp-and.HP.COM>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 1991 17:18:40 GMT

In article <13650001@hp-and.HP.COM> ossmann@hp-and.HP.COM (Bill Ossmann) writes:
>Eh??  Why do leap seconds matter when all you are controlling is the
>(integral) number of cycles in a single second?  Or do you mean that
>they actually slow things down a bit so that people with clocks
>running off the power line don't have to insert the leap second by
>other means?

That's right.  Believe it or not.
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