[LEAPSECS] Do lawyers care (know) about leap seconds?

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Wed Oct 1 12:13:14 EDT 2014


Kevin Birth <Kevin.Birth at qc.cuny.edu> wrote:

> For most of human history there were no global time standards.  In Europe,
> many city states had their own distinctive times--Nuremberg Time, Italian
> Time, Bohemian Time . . .

But before there were standard times there were standard representations
of time, e.g. the 12/24 hour clock and base 60 fractions.

Tony.
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