On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:58:01 -0400, John Gilmore wrote:

>Precession very gradually brings UTC (and other lunisolar calendars
>too) out of alignment with the seasons on earth.  Leap seconds correct
>for this precession, keeping UTC seasonally aligned, or nearly so.

That's the purpose of leap years.

Leap seconds do not have anything to do with seasons, but with 
variations in the mean solar day.  As I understand it, the problem 
that leap seconds address is that the speed of rotation of the 
earth is not constant.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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