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    EMF Camp 2022

    by crashposition June 14, 02022
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  • Spring Forward

    by John March 29, 02020

    Daylight Saving Time is the name given to the process of setting clocks forward by an hour during spring and summer, then setting them back again during Autumn and Winter.…

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  • Leap Days

    by John February 29, 02020

    This year is a bit longer than usual as we have an extra day in February. But it’s probably not the day you think it is. Almost all calendar systems…

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  • The Box

    by John May 14, 02019

    I’ve kept a box in my office for the last few years. On it is marked, “In Emergency, Open Box and Start Company”. I keep it there because I’ve been…

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  • A brief history of Leap Seconds

    by John September 16, 02018

    A few weeks ago I gave a talk about Leap Seconds at Electromagnetic Field (EMF) – an extraordinary camping festival for hackers and makers, held in the UK every two…

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  • On the trail of Admiral Cloudesley Shovell

    by John September 3, 02017

    The remarkably named Sir Cloudesley Shovell was by the time of his death in 1707, Admiral of the British Fleet. His ship HMS Association, went down off the Scilly Isles…

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  • The State of Temporal Standards

    by John May 29, 02017

    If you work with temporal data on the web then you may be interested in a couple of proposals currently going through the specifications bodies. In the next few years we could…

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  • The Last Encore 2016

    by John January 3, 02017

    The 2016 Last Encore music project has come to a close. When I first spoke about it back in January I remarked that it had been a “rough few weeks for music”.…

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  • The Ceremony of the Keys

    by John December 26, 02016

    The Ceremony of the Keys is a remarkable tradition that takes place every evening at the Tower of London. At exactly 9:53pm the Chief Yeoman Warder, accompanied by members of…

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