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

Clive D.W. Feather clive at davros.org
Sat Dec 31 03:12:00 EST 2016


Warner Losh said:
> 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.

What about 708 AUC, with 15 months and 445 days? Surely that completely
trumps 1712?

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