On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 13:03:27 -0400, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> wrote:
. > >I'm a little confused about what kind of units "1.4 milliseconds a day >per century" would be in. > >Tony H. > This means that every 100 years, the day gets about 1.4 thousandths of a second longer, compared to the length of the day measured the moment atomic clocks became available commercially, at 1957, and since then, 36 leap seconds were counted. The epoch being used in computer systems is 1972, with 26 leap seconds counted since then. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
