On 25 May 2011 at 4:59, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <68e04164-495f-40cf-b287-ca9a58780...@noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes: > > >By definition, of course, the length of a day is always 86,400 > >seconds, or 24 hours of 60 minutes of 60 "natural seconds" :-) > > For values of "always" starting slowly some hundred years ago in > selected geographies and cultures, and ending world wide in 1972.
Unless you apply a "proleptic solar second" over time periods before or after any such unit was in actual use. -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
