In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes:

>We manage to deal with months containing 28, 29, 30, and 31 days.
>The great majority of months (4497/4800) aren't even denumerable with
>the length of our week.  Why then is a requirement that one minute
>out of 800,000 accommodate one extra (or one fewer) second seen to be
>such an imposition?

Be cause we only get 15 million seconds of advance notice.

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