[LEAPSECS] 2016 is not tied for second longest year ever

[Steve Allen]

On Fri 2016-12-30T22:01:46 -0700, Warner Losh hath writ:
> I'd think that 1712 in Sweeden was the longest year with 31708800 SI
> seconds (give or take a few hundred milliseconds, my data-sniffing fu
> isn't up the challenge of digging through the historical data to find
> out how many). That was a double-leap-year. See
> https://www.timeanddate.com/date/february-30.html or
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_30 for detals.

According to Stephenson, Morrison, Hohenkerk that should be
31708799.8 SI s, but with uncertainty larger than the difference.

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