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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
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Subject: Re:  calendar
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Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 11:44:52 EDT
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> From: mcgeer%ucbkim@Berkeley (Rick McGeer)
> 
> 	Yea.  We have a leap second periodically to even out the flaws in
> the Gregorian calendar.  Just had one this year, in fact.
> 
> 					Rick.

If I understand correctly, the leap seconds are not to correct the calendar,
but are to correct for the slowing of the earth with respect to the atomic
clocks.  Leap seconds are added whenever the mood strikes the people who
wind the atoms :-), not according to a fixed plan.


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