On the subject of time, though in this case geological, you may be interetsed in the book "The Dating Game" by Cherry Lewis, pub: Cambridge University Press, 2000, which deals with the gradual unravellling of geological time as shown in the rocks, principally by Sir Arthur Holmes.
Note : if you look for this book in the local library, you may well find it in the romance or even 'smut' section...... peter tandy At 06:42 PM 10/10/00 -0700, you wrote: >I have just encountered _Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the >Perfect Calendar_ by Duncan Steel, (Wiley, 2000) which contains >mind-numbing detail regarding not only the length of the year, but of >the day, month and second as well, all of which have several variant >definitions. > >Al Pratt > >
