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 seco
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.
But recorded history goes back far enough to encompass 46 BC, which
had 445 days due to Caesar's calendar reform.
My apologies, a straight line calculation of the need for leap years
would indicate that there should be 3 in the next 8000 years.
On 12/04/2012 22:33, Robert Jones wrote:
The second year, because the earth's orbit is gradually speeding up
and the length of the year decreasing! It had no lea
The second year, because the earth's orbit is gradually speeding up and
the length of the year decreasing! It had no leap seconds because they
weren't invented then, but if they had been, there would probably have
been at least one dropped from the current style of recording time of day.
The
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?
--
Steve Allen
