Brian Garrett said: > Besides, the English term "leap second" is a misnomer--a leap year is > a year with an extra day in it (and the inserted day is *not* called a leap > day) so by analogy the insertion of a second should probably have been > termed a "leap minute".
The initial derivation of the term is that the Dominical Letter (which shows the mapping between day of week and date) leaped over a value on that day: the sequence would go: 2005 B 2006 A 2007 G 2008 FE (F for January and February, E for the rest) 2009 D 2010 C 2011 B -- Clive D.W. Feather | Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 Internet Expert | Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Fax: +44 870 051 9937 Demon Internet | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646 THUS plc | |
