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

Dr John Stockton wrote:


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.
If we really think we know the length of a year, shouldn't the rule
be "365 days except every fourth, except every twenty-fifth, except
every fourth, except every eighth, except every hundred forty fourth"? All I've ever were the first three exceptions.
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