[LEAPSECS] Degrees of Accommodating Time Based on Earth Rotation

[Warner Losh]

  On 11/02/2010 12:44, Tony Finch wrote:

> Leap days are also an instructive example, since it took about 300 years

> for Europe to deploy a revision to the previous standard which had been in

> place for about 1600 years...

One not completely adopted either: to compute many religious holidays, 
many eastern branches of Christianity still use the old standard for, 
ironically enough, "religious" reasons :)

Warner