[LEAPSECS] The ends we seek

[Tony Finch]

Mark Calabretta <mcalabre at atnf.csiro.au> wrote:

>

> Leap seconds did for the clock what Julius Caesar did for the

> calendar - 2000 years ago.


Actually the reverse. Julius Caesar replaced an unpredictable calendar
with a predictable one. When civil time was based on UT1 it had
predictable labels, whereas UTC has an unpredictable labelling system.

Tony.
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