[LEAPSECS] Meeting with Wayne Whyte

Stephen Colebourne scolebourne at joda.org
Tue Feb 1 06:06:20 EST 2011


On 1 February 2011 10:09, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

>        A: Ehh, we sort of don't know how long a year is...


Poul, this is not true for JSR-310. A year is 365-366 days long. A day
is a fundamental unit. Thus we know exactly how long each are.

Taking a "second is the most important" viewpoint of the world isn't
very helpful. Most of don't measure the length of a holiday in
seconds, we use days or weeks.

SI seconds are significant, but far less important than days.

Stephen


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