Re: NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2006

"oriel36" <geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1153328172.167564.6730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Tell people why a 86 400 leap second correction is needed every 4 years
and what happens to that quarter day each year in respect to the annual
orbit of the Earth.

Because Pope Gregory decreed it, heretic. Expect the Spanish inquisition any
time soon ;-).

Klazmon.

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