[LEAPSECS] other ignored leap conventions

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 24 Feb 2012 at 11:59, Steve Allen wrote:


> On Fri 2012-02-24T19:52:19 +0000, Ian Batten hath writ:

> > Steve's original claim was about "acts of parliament".

> 

> Prior to the detailed tables there is section 2

> http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apgb/Geo2/24/23/section/2

> which says "bissextile" (or, as in the original printing,

> "biffextile").


Some almanacs as late as the 1970s still referred to "the Bissextile, 
or Leap Year", though I think the Old Farmers Almanac eventually 
modernized its style enough to avoid such archaic usages.


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