[LEAPSECS] The relation between calendars and leap seconds.

[John Cowan]

Rob Seaman scripsit:


> But you're right - I see the light!  I now acknowledge that it is more  

> important to kowtow to international standards - standards that you  

> loudly blare are badly conceived and written - than to acknowledge  

> minor facts of physical reality such as that Earth has a moon.


What has the Moon to do with it?  The connection of the Moon to the
calendar was lost in Julius Caesar's time -- doubtless to great howling
by the astro{nom,log}ical community.

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        they only grind their gears.                    cowan at ccil.org
But then they don't really grind their gears, either;   
        they only obey the laws of physics.  --Unknown