9 Sep
2021
9 Sep
'21
4:52 a.m.
Ah, leap seconds. I work for an observatory. Some things are in TAI and some are in UTC.
At least now I know what to look for when something is 37 seconds off.
Adam
On Sep 8, 2021, at 1:36 PM, Warner Losh
<imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2021, 7:25 AM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org
<mailto:dave@horsfall.org>> wrote:
On Wed, 8 Sep 2021, Tony Finch wrote:
It's even more funny than that :-) They
actually went back to the Julian
calendar in 1712, and they needed to add back the leap day they skipped in
1700; this extra day became February 30th.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-standard_dates#February_30
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-standard_dates#February_30>
Oh, my sainted aunt...
This is the example I give to people who say calendars are easy...
Also, I use it in my screeds against the current observational nature of leap seconds.
Warner
-- Dave
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