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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Sun Feb 7 15:03:10 1993
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 15:02:50 -0500
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
File SER14 -- <930201.1735>
U.S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY
WASHINGTON, DC 20392-5420
February 1, 1993
No. 55
TIME SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT SERIES 14
UTC TIME STEP
1. The International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) has announced the
Introduction of a time step to occur at the end of June 1993.
2. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) will be retarded by 1.0s so that the
sequence of dates of the UTC markers will be:
1993 June 30 23h 59m 59s
1993 June 30 23h 59m 60s
1993 July 01 0h 0m 0s
3. The difference between UTC and International Atomic Time TAI is:
from 1992 Jul 1, 0h UTC, to 1993 Jul.1, 0h UTC: TAI-UTC = +27s
from 1993 Jul 1, 0h UTC, until further notice: TAI-UTC = +28s
4. The insertion of one leap second will be evident by the change of
sign of the DUT1 correction which will become positive. Extrapolated
values of DUT1 are distributed weekly in the IERS Bulletin A (Time
Service Announcement Series 7).
5. All coordinated time scales will be affected by this adjustment.
However, the Loran-C, GPS and OMEGA systems will not be adjusted
physically. Tables of Coincidence (Time Service Announcement Series 9)
will be issued for Loran-C. For GPS, the leap second correction
contained within the UTC data of subframe 4, page 18 of the navigation
message transmitted by the satellite will change.
Before the leap second
GPS-UTC = +8s (i.e., GPS is ahead of UTC by eight seconds).
After the leap second
GPS-UTC = +9s (i.e., GPS will be ahead of UTC by nine seconds).
The OMEGA Reference Ephoch (ORE) will change - that is, from 1 July
1993 (after the leap second) the OMEGA system will operate with the
the beginning of segment one on seconds 42, 52, 02, 12, 22, and 32 of
each minute.
GERNOT M. R. WINKLER
Director
Time Service Department
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jroth (Jakub Roth):
Plan? What, plan?? Don't talk to me about
plans! I've seen plans destroy countries!!
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lsc (Lecture Series Committee):
LSC Movies for the week of Feb 5 to Feb 7
Fri. Feb 5 Penny Serenade (1941) [???] 10-250 7:30
Spend an evening with Cary Grant as our First Friday Festival kicks
off with the master of comedy in one of his finest dramatic roles. He
and Irene Dunne play a couple struggling to adopt a child. Although he
was not a parent at the time, Grant's plea for his daughter is one of
the most passionate speeches in cinema history.
Fri. Feb 5 Single White Female [R] 26-100 7 & 10
What to do when you've just kicked your boyfriend out of your apartment
and are faced with paying the huge rent typical of New York City alone?
Find a new roommate! Preferably a new roommate who isn't suffering from
a childhood psychological trauma. Starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer
Jason Leigh.
Sat. Feb 6 Buffy the Vampire Slayer [PG-13] 26-100 7 & 10
Kristy Swanson is Buffy, a Southern Californian high school cheerleader
who learns she is destined to be the latest in a long line of vampire
killers. Sounds stupid, but is done well and is a good movie. Also
stars Luke Perry.
Sun. Feb 7 Raiders of the Lost Ark [PG] 26-100 7 & 10
Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones, an archaeologist who won't take no for
an answer--even if it means being chased by a boulder the size of
10-250, shot at, and dumped into a tomb full of snakes. This time,
though, his prize is the Ark of the Covenant, and the Nazis are
providing more than the usual level of competition. A Steven Spielberg
and George Lucas production. NOTE: Moved to 26-100 to take advantage
the room's superior sound system.
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or the LSC office, 253-3791.
MIT or Wellesley ID required, one guest allowed per ID.
Admission to movies is $1.50 and a 20-Admission
Superticket is available for $28.
Classic Movie shows end before the start of the second
show of the corresponding Friday series movie.
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mhbraun (Matt Braun):
...and if i show you my dark side
will you still hold me tonight
and if i open my heart to you
and show you my weak side
what would you do ?
-Pink Floyd "The Final Cut"
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nosaj (Jason M Sachs):
My plan for today is to get rid of this cold.
I mean, this is probably the #1 worst cold I've ever had. I think
somebody must have sneaked into my room at night and taken one of
those... what do you call those things? Oh, yeah, caulk guns. Someone
must have taken a caulk gun and stuck it up my nose and gone *wham!*
*kachunk* *kachunk* *kachunk* right up my sinus cavity, possibly
planning to kill me from suffocation, but then maybe the guy had a
change of heart and decided to just make my life miserable for a
while.
I think the only other time I've wanted to cut my nose off from agony
has been when I got bologna stuck in my nose. I'm not kidding. I
mean, there I was, just innocently eating a bologna sandwich (I think
it was Oscar Meyer on Wonder Bread) and reading a book, and *zing!* I
sneeze, and it gets stuck up my nose. The bread wasn't so bad, but the
bologna was a bit painful. This is like ten times worse than getting
milk stuck up your nose, and that happens to just about everybody,
right?
There you are, eating lunch in the cafeteria with your friends, in the
third or fourth grade, just sitting there listening to one kid as he
tells you about his vacation to Hawaii or the five zillion presents he's
gotten for Christmas, and you're drinking either milk or apple
juice from out of one of those thermos things that come with your
lunch box, and then somebody says something funny, and you start
laughing, and whatever it was you were drinking suddenly explodes into
your nose.
And it doesn't taste good, either. I mean, apple juice and milk aren't
supposed to taste like that, and snot certainly doesn't taste like
that. I think there is some sort of special enzyme that gets injected
into stuff as it goes up your nose the wrong way, initiating a chemical
reaction that starts making acid or something, because that's what it
tastes like. Maybe I should get apple juice exploded up my nose now,
so this acid stuff can eat through the sealing caulk in my nose.
But anyway, getting bologna is ten times worse. I mean, the apple
juice effect only lasts for a few minutes. But bologna... ugh, I was
blowing my nose and seeing pink bits for a few hours. I'm glad that's
over.
And I'm sure glad I wasn't eating peanuts instead of bologna.
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
Can't Hack It
Former South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky said he abandoned plans to
become a taxicab driver in the United States becuase it is a "rough
life" and "you have to know the syndicate."
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