Get ready for sunrise at noon. (Afterwords).(Brief Article)

Someday the sun may rise at noon, warns an ad in Popular Science, and what a worrying prospect that might be. Getting up with the sun in such circumstances may suit some people, but not us busy go-getters on whom the world depends for its supply of self-returning golf balls and electrically operated windscreen wipers for reading glasses. The answer is to buy an 'atomic timepiece' (which to the uninitiated looks suspiciously similar to a clock). This is important because unless a leap-second is added every 18 months, in a thousand years or so the …