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 
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

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