On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Steve Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > Leap second trivia for the end of the year. > > 1972 was a leap year and had 2 leap seconds for a total of 31622402 SI s. > 2016 is a leap year with only 1 leap second for a total of 31622401 SI s. > But according to Stephenson, Morrison, Hohenkerk (2016) the year 1904 > was the second longest year ever with a total of 31622401.41 SI s.
I'd think that 1712 in Sweeden was the longest year with 31708800 SI seconds (give or take a few hundred milliseconds, my data-sniffing fu isn't up the challenge of digging through the historical data to find out how many). That was a double-leap-year. See https://www.timeanddate.com/date/february-30.html or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_30 for detals. Warner _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
