[154418] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Tue Jul 3 17:41:01 2012
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 22:40:09 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <49423.1341348864@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
>
> Leap seconds are added for the exact same reason leap days are - the
> earth's rotation isn't a clean multiple of the year.
No leap seconds have nothing to do with years.
Tony.
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