Fun in Noomerville

oriel36 wrote:

All the pretension behind the leap second adjustment is fine as long
as at least some people recognise that it is little more than
self-congratulation using the wrong astronomical working principles for
axial rotation,should the iers care to review how the actual principles
which correlate clock time with the Earth's axial motion,right back to
its pre-Copernican correlation between naturally observed day and
equable 24 hour day then nobody will be happier than I.

But actually, we should adopt a better standard:<)

Days:

A Normal day consists of 1441 minutes. A Leap Day only
has 1440 minutes. Whether the longer day is added as
a leap second every twentyfour or a leap minute at the
end is beyond the scope of this standard.

Cycles:

There are nineteen days in a cycle, which, for lack of
nice names, we'll call M9,...,0,...P9. In a normal
cycle all days except day "0" are normal. In a leap
cycle, all days are normal.

Scores (a "score" of years, that is):

There are 365 cycles in a score -- making a total of
nineteen years. Each of those years has a bit over
19 cycles. The largest 19 of those cycles, for want of
a better name, we'll call M9,...,0,...,P9 -- we'll figure
out a special name for the other one later -- maybe
something like "left-overs". In a normal score, year
"0" has only two leap cycles, M4 and P4; all other years
have three leap cycles, M6, 0 and P6. In a leap score,
all years have all three leap cycles.

Centuries:

There are five scores in a century, M2,M1,0,P1 and P2.
In a normal century, scores M1 and P1 are leap scores.
In a leap century, only score 0 is a leap score.

Note: A century is about 1175 synodic months, 1270
sidereal months, and 34698 leap days.

Millennia:

Naturally, there are eleven centuries in a millenium,
M5,...,0,...P5. The odd numbered centuries are normal
centuries; the even numbered centuries are leap centuries.

Now, let that settle it for now... call me in 70000 years or
so and we'll discuss adjustments.


Now, watch some [expletive deleted] numerologist see this and
take it where it shouldn't be.
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