Dear Frank et al, Not one of mine! I think I recognise it as one of the Connoisseur Sundials range. Good news (ish) that the leap second hasn't been abandoned (yet). But the bad (UK) news yesterday was about the upcoming parliamentary vote proposing (yet again) that we adopt permanent BST. No further comment needed! Regards, John ---------------------------------------------
Dr J Davis Flowton Dials --- On Fri, 20/1/12, Frank King <[email protected]> wrote: From: Frank King <[email protected]> Subject: Sundial and the Leap Second To: [email protected] Date: Friday, 20 January, 2012, 11:38 Dear All, Patrick Powers has drawn my attention to the recent non-vote on the future of the Leap Second. Those interested will probably already know that the vote that was planned for this week has now been delayed until 2015. If you Google... Leap Second Future or Leap Second Vote You will find more hits than you can cope with. The one with the best picture is: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2088798/Leap-second-Conference-bigges t-timekeeping-change-centuries.html?ito=feeds-newsxml There is a nice view of a sundial resting on a plinth but not bolted down. Could this be a Tony Moss or John Davis dial? The caption "...rendering sundials useless" is a little over the top in my view! The impression I get is that the Canadians, the Chinese and the British are in favour of keeping leap seconds but the French, German and U.S. authorities want to get rid of them. Would any French, German or U.S. contributors to this mailing list care to comment!! Frank King Cambridge U.K. --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
--------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
