Richard B. Gilbert writes: > Too bad that the movements of of the planets, moons, etc. are not > better behaved. Lacking the powers of the divine we must work around > the fact that the earth does not rotate exactly once in each > twenty-four hours, and the fact that its revolution around the Sun is > similarly messy, taking 365 days, six hours, and a few odd minutes and > seconds which we account for (mostly) by declaring a "leap year" every > four years.
A purely local problem which should be handled by localization tables, not by jiggering the timestream. Are you going to insert leap hours on Mars?. -- John Hasler [email protected] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
