On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:01:50 -0500, Brett Frankenberger said: > No. Leap Years arise because the solar year is not an integral > multiple of the solar day.
And leap seconds arise because the astronomical day is not an integral multiple of the hour, minute, or second. Same problem. > still hold. There's virtually no chance that on a hypothetical Earth > that wasn't slowing, that population would have decided that the > second should be 1/86400.005 of a solar day. Look up the *original* definition of the meter, and think about the phrase "measurement error".
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