[LEAPSECS] 1.26 microseconds

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Jun 13 17:56:19 EDT 2011


In message <E1QWEej-0002RY-00 at www.xplot.org>, Tim Shepard writes:


>Oh that is easy. A year is however long it takes a tree ring to grow.


That would probably be my all-time favourite variable length
definition of a unit of measurement, depending on species and
latitude it would vary by a factor 4 :-)

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