[LEAPSECS] The relation between calendars and leap seconds.

[Tony Finch]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>

> There is one requirement you do not seem to even think about, much less

> mention:

>

> 	The limited human intelligence.

>

> As we saw a couple of years ago, the 400 year leap-year role is slightly

> above the level of complexity humans can deal with, a significant

> fraction of "people who should have known" didn't.


I did think of that, but we've just been discussing some much more complex
examples of arithmetic calendars. I couldn't argue that there had been a
historical trend towards simplicity as well as predictability. But I agree
that simplicity is an important requirement.

Tony.
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