> The Turin leap second survey said that loss of life had occurred due > to a leap second insertion event. The survey didn't provide any > additional details. However, I've not been able to find any media > coverage of such an event, nor find other documentary evidence to > support it.
Sorry, I haven't ever seen anything on this either. But on a related note, let's do some math. The population of Earth is 6.4e9. The birth rate is 21 / 1000 / year so there are 4.3 births per second (4.3 Hz for the purists ;-). The death rate is 9 / 1000 / year so there are 1.8 deaths per second. That suggests about 4 babies are born and 2 people die during a leap second. /tvb _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
