-------- In message <CAHZk5WfKSLMy77HK1Vsvk9PQ5v=tpb0rzuri8j4kmcezooa...@mail.gmail.com> , Sanjeev Gupta writes:
>Note that "seconds" are also a unit of angles, so UT1 seconds being a >measure of angle is not strange. ...and I'm sure any surveyor or ships navigator would be extremely suprised if somebody told him that the degree between 23°59' and 24°00' had sixtyone seconds once every other year or so. "minutes" and "seconds" are fractions of 60 and have been so since babylonian times for minutes and since 13-mumble for seconds. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
