Brian Garrett wrote:
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)
Actually it *is* called a leap day. It is the leap year terminology
that is the odd one out.
-zefram
Ed Davies wrote:
However, it's a horrible article and really needs reorganization
as some of the paragraphs have suffered serious mission creep.
I edited quite a lot of time-related articles last year, and couldn't
figure out what to do with it. I started off with the articles on
astronomical
- Original Message -
From: Ed Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LEAPSECS@ROM.USNO.NAVY.MIL
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Subject: [LEAPSECS] Wikipedia article
Thanks to those who confirmed the ITU text on when leap seconds can
be applied.
I've made two small edits
