The Guardian soeaks to Peter Whibberley, "a senior research scientist at the National Physical Laboratory". There's discussion about the future of leap seconds, and he's against any change in line with the UK's national policy as we saw in the WP7a summary.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/dec/30/leap-second-new-year Wednesday's PM on Radio 4 included an item about the way the keepers of the Big Ben clock handled the leap second. They slowed it down for several hours by removing a stack of old coins from a plate near the top of the pendulum to lower its centre of gravity. They replaced them again when it had lost a seond. Rubber seconds, 19th century style! You can still get the episode (usng realplayer) until about 17:00 UTC from this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/pm/ Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ FORTIES: NORTHERLY 4 OR 5, OCCASIONALLY 6 LATER IN EAST. MODERATE OR ROUGH, BUT SLIGHT IN SOUTH FOR A TIME. SHOWERS. MAINLY GOOD. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
