Dear Fred, Thank you for this snippet about the Leap Second...
> Copy and paste the following into your Web browser to access > the sent link: > > http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&etMailToID=1114314915&pt=Y I am impressed that the Wall Street Journal should take up the cause! I can't imagine a British newspaper being much interested though maybe I am wrong. Those who have been following this debate might note that the Royal Astronomical Society met in London last Friday and the subject came up then. There was a senior Civil Servant there representing the British Government. There was not a single voice in favour of abolishing the Leap Second and the Civil Servant was at one with the rest. Steve Allen of the University of California certainly has the right idea: "Time has basically always really meant what you measure when you put a stick in the ground and look at its shadow," Indeed so! Frank H. King Cambridge, U.K. -
