On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 6:12 PM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Obviously, removing a whole day from the year will create problems > keeping the calendar in step with the seasons. To compensate, it > will be necessary to add approximately 1.25 days worth of leap > seconds to each year. This works out to about one leap second > every 5 minutes. If a suitable algorithm is devised for distributing > these "leap minutes" as evenly as possible over the year, this > should cause minimal disruption. > Far more disruption than you think, because that would result in daylight at midnight and nighttime at noon for a good chunk of the year. Instead, I suggest permanently extending February to 29 days instead, with a 30th day in leap years. This would limit the disruption to a single month (March), and only by an offset of one day. I never understood what February did wrong to be disrespected with such a short month anyway. Instead, February would be equal in length to April most of the time, and every four years (at least within our lifetimes *cough2100cough*) it would get to gloat over being longer than April.
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