[LEAPSECS] Leap Seconds schedule prior to 1972

[John Sauter]

On Sat, 2016-04-23 at 21:44 +0800, Sanjeev Gupta wrote:
> 
> > 
> How far back do we have to go before we have multiple leap seconds
> *per day* ?
> 
> -- 
> Sanjeev Gupta
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I don't have an exact figure, but the length of Earth's day changes by
about 2.3 milliseconds per century, so it will take something like
50,000 years for an ordinary day to be 86,399 or 86.401 seconds.
    John Sauter (John_Sauter at systemeyescomputerstore.com)
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