On 12 Apr, 2012, at 12:33 , Steve Allen wrote:
> A well circulated piece of trivia is that 1972 was the longest year in
> recorded history because civil time contained two leap seconds.
>
> I offer this challenge:
>
> What was the second longest year in recorded history, and how many
> leap seconds did it have?
I'll guess 1960, a leap year with 1.42 seconds added. That was before leap
seconds were invented, though.
The table I found that in is here:
http://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/tai-utc.dat
Dennis Ferguson
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