Title: Sundials and atomic clocks
This article
will be of interest to those of you interested in those weird leap
seconds that sometimes get added to our clocks on New Year's Eve due
to the unpredictable changes in the Earth's rotation. Ironically,
amidst discussions of keeping time
And, there is a long, popular level article on leap seconds and GPS
(prompted by the recent Motorola GPS receiver problem) in the 22 November
issue of New Scientist now on newsstands.
See also the article GPS and Leap Seconds: Time to Change? which appeared in
my Innovation column in GPS World in
