Le 03/08/2011 00:49, Chris Stake a écrit :
I don't get it.
Does that mean that leap days are OK but leap seconds are unacceptable?
Chris
For the moment yes, as they are animals from two different species. Leap
seconds form part of the current definition of UTC which is a time
scale, even though not uniform due to the leap seconds. Leap days form
part of a calendar and there are lots of different flavours to chose
from. They are needed as the year isn't exactly 365 mean solar days days
but about 365,2424. However if leap seconds are abandoned and nothing is
done in between times there may need to be a real leap day in around
86400 years as MST is slow by about 1s/year.
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