Re: [LEAPSECS] 2016 is not tied for second longest year ever

Warner Losh wrote: > > There's also other year reckonings for other cultures that produce > very long results depending on what you tag as "a year" The Jewish calendar uses intercalary months, so a leap year can be 385 days.

Re: [LEAPSECS] 2016 is not tied for second longest year ever

On Sat 2016-12-31T10:10:06 -0700, Warner Losh hath writ: > There's also other year reckonings for other cultures that produce > very long results depending on what you tag as "a year" Yes to all these editorials, so allow me to edit my original to 1904 was the second longest year ever *using the

Re: [LEAPSECS] 2016 is not tied for second longest year ever

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote: > Warner Losh said: >> I'd think that 1712 in Sweeden was the longest year with 31708800 SI >> seconds (give or take a few hundred milliseconds, my data-sniffing fu >> isn't up the challenge of digging through the

Re: [LEAPSECS] 2016 is not tied for second longest year ever

Warner Losh said: > I'd think that 1712 in Sweeden was the longest year with 31708800 SI > seconds (give or take a few hundred milliseconds, my data-sniffing fu > isn't up the challenge of digging through the historical data to find > out how many). That was a double-leap-year. What about 708

[LEAPSECS] 2016 is not tied for second longest year ever

Leap second trivia for the end of the year. 1972 was a leap year and had 2 leap seconds for a total of 31622402 SI s. 2016 is a leap year with only 1 leap second for a total of 31622401 SI s. But according to Stephenson, Morrison, Hohenkerk (2016) the year 1904 was the second longest year ever