Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since we have a tradition of measuring diurnal and other repetitive > cycles (days) based on the rotation of the earth, we end up with fudge > factors to make that line up with months from time to time. (leap > seconds).
That is not what leap seconds are. Leap seconds are to align the artificial and very stable atomic timescale with the irregular and slowing rotation of the earth. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Faeroes, South-east Iceland: Easterly 5 or 6, backing northeasterly 4 or 5. Moderate. Occasional rain, fog patches in Faeroes. Moderate or good, occasionally very poor in Faeroes.
