On 12/19/12 4:12 PM, Sanjeev Gupta wrote:
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Tom Knox <[email protected]> wrote:
Does anyone have ideas on how I can trigger my camera to capture the "end
of the world" roll over on my clocks.
I need to know something even more basic: Did the Mayans correct for leap
seconds?
No.. as explained in a mail from Kevin Birth a few days ago (he actually
knows this stuff, being an anthropologist)..
The calendar just counts "days", and isn't synchronized to instantaneous
astronomical events like solstices and such.
I see a similarity between TAI and the Maya long count.. constant rate,
monotonically increasing.
And a similar similarity between civil time and the Maya solar calendar
(the Haab), both of which are synchronized to particular events (solar
noon, solstices, respectively).
As I seem to be the only one around without access to a 10GHz Rb/Cs/Ub
clock, I am not asking for time-nut accuracy. But leap seconds _have_
built up, so at least that (as an amateur) I should correct for.
Please help. It is not like you have plans for the weekend.
Keep calm, carry on..
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