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

JRS: In article <Xns9806B9A3FA4E6Klazmonllurdiaxorbgo@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
dated Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:14:57 remote, seen in news:sci.astro.amateur,
Llanzlan Klazmon <Klazmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted :

Date: 20 Jul 2006 18:14:57 +1200

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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 ;-).

You are clearly posting from New Zealand.

Pope Gregory explicitly limited the effects of his Bull to regions under
Church authority - that did not effectively include Britain (then
Protestant) or New Zealand (then Maori, and not known of in the
Vatican).

King George II with his Parliament decreed the present Calendar; but the
Act explicitly states the regions to which it applies, and does not
include you. You and the Aussies should consider what legal basis your
present Calendar actually has.

But, of course, neither Pope nor King introduced quadrennial Leap Years;
they introduced the omission of a specified 3% of what would have been
Leap Years under the rules then extant. It was G Julius Caesar,
Imperator and future assassinee, who introduced (in principle)
quadrennial Leap Years; and one of his successors a generation or so
later who got the implementation corrected.

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